Kukulkan
At the Mayas, Kukulkan is the god Plumed serpent, god of resurrection and the reincarnation. To each equinox, its shade climbs or descends from the Castillo (Chichen Itza). He plays a part identical to Quetzalcoatl at the Aztèques.
Perhaps Kukulkan comes according to the legend from the ocean and will go back a day there. According to a Maya legend, it will return on ground at the time of the End of the world. Kukulkan is its name with the Yucatan, but with the Guatemala rather, one calls it Gucumatz.
Kukulkan was also the god of the four elements (water, Ground, fire, air), each element being represented by a plant or an animal.
- air-vulture
- fire-lizard
- Ground-corn
- water-fish
In the Maya writing, Kukulkan can be represented by a flute in bone, a jaguar, an eagle, a swimming pool of blood or a snail.
Other names
- Gucumatz
- Gugumatz
- Kucumatz
- Kukulcan
- Kulkulcan
- Kukumatz
- Quetzalcoatl (Aztec)
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