Gods and Goddesses
South American
Mayan
Yum Cimil

Tzultacah

TYPE: God of death

ORIGIN: Mayan - Classical Mesoamerican,- Mexico

INFORMATION: Depicted with a skull head, bare ribs, and spiny projections from the vertebrae, or with bloated flesh marked by dark rings of decomposition. He wears bell-like ornaments fastened in the hair. Sacrificial victims were offered to the god by drowning in the sacred pool or cenote. Also God A.