Maya mythology: The One of Gods, Itsamna

according to maya ancient beliefs, the creator is a god called hunabe or hunab kou.

“hun” means “one”, “ab” means “existence” and “ku” means “god”.

hunaber was the father of itessana and the zeus of maya.

but since this god is very far away from people's daily lives, it is rarely practiced in people's lives.

according to the " bobore uu " , the holy book of the mayan in quinche on the guatemalan plateau, the creator created humans with corn.

itessana is the son of hunabe, the head of all gods in maya mythology.

in a copy of his hand, the angels, etsamna, were painted as an old man without teeth, dimmed in his cheeks.

he has two symbols — the traditional head, the main symbol of ahoi, which means “the king, the emperor, the monarch, the prince or the great god”, so it is the guardian of ahoi, the last and most important day of the 20-day cycle.

itessana is a god of heaven and a god of day and night, and has been specially worshipped in the izamal area north of yucatán.

the sun god, kinchiaho, may be a special expression of its qualifications for itessana.

itesana is the inventor of writing and books and the first priest to name and divide the yucatán regions.

he's a good god.

he was never associated with evil and destruction and death.

he was worshiped in the ceremony with rain god chuck.

it is a legend that itsamna visited izamal and that he sought to find an honest man to act for himself.

on the advice of the locals, he found a young man named camoni.

itssana handed over a sheep, a cow and a bull to carmoni and told him to take care of them.

the three livestock are taken seriously by kamoni on a daily basis and reported to itsana in a timely manner.

a few days later, it became a grown-up old woman who found camoni and asked him to sell the bull to herself on the grounds that her husband was sick and needed the heart of the bull to heal.

camoni could not resist an old woman ' s plea and sold the bull to her after killing her.

however, after the old woman had left, he began to worry about how to tell it tomorrow.

he put a sham on the floor with a stick and treated it as itsamna, saying to him, “good evening to you, the honourable itsamna, your sheep and cows are very strong, and the bulls have gone to nowhere in fear.” speaking of which, camoni stopped, and he took a deep breath and said, "no, it can't." he then re-stamped the false into the ground, bowing down to the false, as he did to god, and said, “hello, god, you have given me the sheep and the cows very strong, and the bull has fallen into the valley unfortunately.” speaking of which, he stopped and again denied his claims.

all day long, he's been talking to a fake, and after thinking about all the reasons, he finally chose himselfThe most appropriate answer was practiced once and went home to sleep.

The next day, Camoni took the sheep and the cows to see Itessana, and said calmly to the head of the Gods: “Hello, King of God, as long as your sheep and cows grow, the bull I killed and sold to an old woman, and I am now willing to accept any punishment from you.” His reply made Itsamnaton more than happy, and he confessed the truth to Kamoni and handed over the position of a substitute to the honest young man。