ABSTRACT
God ‘A’ He is Hunhau† or Ahpuch†, the Maya god of death, who ruled over Mitnal. In the codices he is represented as a being with exposed vertebrae and a skull-like countenance. He may be taken to be the same as Mictlantecuhtli†, the Aztec god of the dead, with the difference that while the Aztec deity presided over the north or south his Mayan counterpart presided over the west. His symbol is that for the day Cimi, ‘death’, his hieroglyph is a corpse’s head and a skull together with a flint sacrificial knife.
