Gods and Goddesses
South American
Mayan (Lacandon)
Chaob (carrying off)

TYPE: Wind God(s)

ORIGIN: Lacandon, Classical Mesoamerican, Mexico

INFORMATION: They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified. Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the west.