Mayan God and Drive Letter Icons

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The table below shows Mayan icons suitable for use as Drive Letter Icons in Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP. These may be changed from the standard icons used by using any of several programs, including More Properties 2.02 (the author has dropped off the net), DropFolder Pro, Madonote (was Winback Scratcher), MicroAngelo OnDisplay and Tweakui.  I use a combination of Madonote, OnDisplay and Tweakui.  OnDisplay makes for the easiest changing of icons for drives, Madonote lets me change more other stuff than any alternate program, and Tweakui lets me change a few oddball items that nothing else offers (such as X-mouse behaviour). Hovering your mouse over most of the large heading letters will show links to larger images in the Mayan God List table on which the glyphs were based.

God A (T) Glyph A, 10 (M) Glyph A, 9 (M) Glyph A & 9 (M) Glyph A (M,T)	God B (T) God B (G) Glyph B	God C (T,G) Glyph C1, C2 (M) Glyph C3, C4 (M) Glyph C5, C6 (M) Glyph C, God C (T)	God D (T) Patron, God D (T) Glyph D (M)	God E (T) God E (T) God E (G) Glyph E	God F (T) God F (G) Glyph F God F (G)	God G (T) God G (T) Glyph G1, G2 (T) Glyph G3, G4 (T) Glyph G5, G6 (T) Glyph G7, G8 (T) Glyph G9, G3F (T)	God H (T)	God I (T) God I (T)
God CH (T) Jaguar Patron (T)	God K (T)	God L (T) God L (T)	God M (T)	God N (G) God N (T) God N (T) God N (Shell) (G)	God O (T) God O (T)	God P (D) God N (T) Patron, Frog (T)	God Q (T) God Q (T)	God R (T) God R (T)
	T
God S (T)	Tun (T,G)	Patron, Underground Jaguar (T)	Venus, War God (T)	Uinal (Winal) (T)	Glyph X1, X2 (M,T) Glyph X3, X4 (M,T) Glyph X4a, X5 (M,T) Glyph X6, X6a (M,T) Xoc Patron (T)	Glyph Y (T) Young Moon Goddess (T)	God Z (G) * Glyph Z (T)
(T) = After Thompson; un-attributed glyphs also after Thompson (G) = After Gates (D) = After Davoust (M) = After Morley

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The table below lists the Mayan gods in alphabetical order, along with their names and glyphs where known.

	Ah Kizin Ah Kizin ? Ma Kizin Ah Kamal U Muk The Death god; in the Madrid Codex, he is named as “Cizin” (“Kisin” or “Kizin” in the new orthography), meaning “The flatulent one.”
A2 A3 A4	A3 A4 A2 Ah Chah Ox Halan or Ox Ch’oc An Kan Hanal Another Death god who seems to be the god of death by violent causes, such as decapitation.  Was God
	Chak Kumk’u Chak Ayan ? Chak Ti-Kan Chak Pek-Kul-Ti Chak Chahak Chak, the god of rain and lightning; there were at least four distinct aspects or parts, like the pawahtuns.
	Xa-Man Xa-Man Ma-N(a) Kul Kumk’u More a personification of the concept of sacredness or holiness than a specific god; one could say that he is the god of godness.
	Hun Ahaw Yax Balam Yax Balam Hun Ahaw Hun Ahaw Yax Balam Yax Balam Yax Balam, one of the Hero Twins. Schellhas originally conflated this god and , Sak Kan.  I’ve used the glyph for god CH for the drive letter J.  Davoust says that god CH represents both Yax Balam and Hun Ahaw, the Hero Twins.
	Itzamna Ah Nikil Itzamna, an aged creator god.
	Ah Nal Waxak Nal Ah Nal Ox Ok Wah Ch’a Ha’ Wah The maize god, certainly one of the most important of all the Mayan gods.  Has at least two aspects, the “Foliated” and the “Tonsured” Maize gods.
	Initially distinguished by Schellhas, this god has been separated into several other gods:  or A2, A3, and .  Despite the non-existence of god F, his glyph is still useful for drive letters .
	Ahaw Kin Kin Ahaw Kin The sun god, K’inich Ahaw.
	Wak Kan Kuk Kan Ox Kuk Kan Sak Kan Here, Schellhas conflated two gods, H and what is now termed ; H is a youthful god who might be a wind god.  Read as Sak Kan.
	Hunac Zak Na’ Na Uh Again, Schellhas conflated two goddesses, I and ; I is a youthful goddess who may be a goddess of fertility and love.
	K’awil K’awil Hoka K’awil K’awil, or the mannikin scepter god, and/or Bolon Tz’akab, a god of lightning, fire and dynastic descent.
	Nab Ha’ God L appears to have been the merchant god during the classic era, and to have been an important creator god.  The merchant god during the Post-Classic and contact eras appears to have been .
	Ut The merchant god Ek Chuwah, who became the primary merchant god during the Post-Classic instead of the earlier . .
	Portion of rollout photo copyright © Justin Kerr (K6290), from The Maya Vase Book, Volume 6 p. 955 Ho’ Pawahtun Ho’ Pawahtun Kan Pawahtun Pawah Hub Pawah Mak In the codices and on the lovely ceramic pots, N is often shown wearing a turtle shell, and sometimes a conch shell; this version may be distinct from the pawahtuns, the quadripartite gods who held up the sky, although both versions are still referred to as N.  He is, on the ceramics, very often portrayed as a drunk and a lecher; perhaps this explains why appeasing this god was so important.
	Sak Chel Chel Chel Chak Chel Chak Chel Chak Chel The aged Goddess O is very often shown having jaguar claws instead of hands; she was fierce, and wore serpents in her headdress.  Her name glyphs read Chak Chel or Sak Chel.  Shown many times emptying water from a jar.
	Kuk Kan Kuk Kan P only appears in the Madrid, and Schellhas called him a frog god; however, he might not be a distinct god at all, only a variant of .  I generally use a version of the god N glyph for a drive letter, but Kuk Kan is the correct name glyph.  Taube (1992) says that his drawing of God P, in the center (used with permission), is Kukulcan, or Nahuat Ehacatl Quetzalcoatl, and is an aspect of God .  Tedlock (1996) says that the drawing is of the “Sovereign Plumed Serpent,” which is consistent with the Quetzalcoatl interpretation and the Kuk Kan reading of the name glyph.
	Buluk P’en Originally sunk in , this god appears in the Madrid and the Dresden.  Davoust refers to him as the god of sacrifices.
	Buluk Ch’abtan God R may have something to do with floods, and appears in both the Dresden and the Madrid.
	Shown in the Dresden, this god may be one of the Hero Twins, Hun Ahaw, or perhaps Hun Nik.
	Noh Yum/Kelem Shown in the Dresden, page 20b, in Almanacs 8 and 43, and identified by Zimmerman, but not described by Taube.  Forstemann related God U to God K.
	Nab Ha’ Lahun Chan Tawiz Kal Chak Xiwtei Kaktunal Gods associated with Venus events in the Dresden, pages 46b-50b.
	Dresden, page 44c.  No name glyph known.
	Dresden, page 37a.  No name glyph known.
	Uuk Zip A deer god, found on page 13c of the Dresden; probably read as Uuk Zip.
	A scorpion god (note the tail); possibly read as Ah Tzul (dog?).  Shown in the Madrid on page 80a.  No name glyph known.
	a b c d e f Various mythological animals listed by Schellhas; there would be considerably more if critters like the Sky Monster and the Earth Monster were also listed.  Taube (1992) describes (b) as a “Chac serpent with the headdress of Classic numeral thirteen head variant, entity named as god in accompanying text, Dresden page 35b,” but it looks a lot like a Chak to me (see god ).  (e) is the waterlily jaguar.

Here are the GI-GVII glyphs as seen in Schele’s work on Palenque; GI-GIII are usually known as the Palenque Triad.

GI	GII	GIII	GIV	GV	GVI	GVII

Anderson, Lloyd, Gods in the Mayan Codices: Their Iconography, Glyphic Names, and Attributes, Ecological Linguistics, 1997.

Barnhart, Edwin Lawrence, A Report on the First Twenty Three Pages of the Dresden Codex and Xochicalco: An Ancient Ceremonial Site in the State of Morelos, Mexico, Master’s Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Maya File 321, 1996.

Carrasco, David, Religions of MesoAmerica, Harper & Row, 1990.

Coe, Michael and Mark Van Stone, Reading the Maya Glyphs, Second Edition, Thames & Hudson, 2005.

Davoust, Michel, L’Écriture Maya: et Son Déchiffrement, CNRS Editions, Paris, 1995.

Gates, William, An Outline Dictionary of Maya Glyphs, Dover Publications, Inc., 1978 (First published in 1931).

Montgomery, John, How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs , Hippocrene Books, 2004.

Morley, Sylvanus G., The Ancient Maya, Stanford University Press, 1946 (Second Edition).

Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, Dover, 1975 (Republication from 1915).

Schele, Linda and Mary Ellen Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, George Brazillier, Inc., New York, 1986.

Schellhas, Paul, Representations of Deities in the Maya Manuscripts, Peabody Museum Papers 4:1, 1904.  (Trans. Selma Wesselhoeft and A. M. Parker; includes illustrations.)  Downloaded from Project Gutenberg. 

Taube, Karl Andreas, The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan, Dumbarton Oaks Studies in Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology Number Thirty-Two, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC, 1992.

Taube, Karl and Miller, Mary, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya, Thames and Hudson, 1993.

Tedlock, Dennis, Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, Revised and Expanded, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.

Thompson, J. Eric S., Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction, Third edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 (first edition 1950).

Thompson, J. Eric S., Maya History and Religion, University of Oklahoma Press, 1970.

Thompson, J. Eric S., A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

All the images below show the “My Computer” folders on various Windows machine.

Windows 98, Huch Pib	Windows NT server, Ah Pitzil
Windows 2000 Pro, Ok-xe	Windows NT4, Choklel
Windows XP, Huku K’ul
Windows 98, Bak-Way

Click on the links below to download your choice of zip distributions.  They contain the drive letter icons A-Z, as shown in the table above.

Bmp	-rw-rw-rw- 1 ftpadm ftp 46000 Jan 8 16:34 dlbmp.zip
Cursors	-rw-rw-rw- 1 ftpadm ftp 48285 Jan 8 16:34 dlcur.zip
Gif	-rw-rw-rw- 1 ftpadm ftp 76831 Jan 8 16:34 dlgif.zip
Icons	-rw-rw-rw- 1 ftpadm ftp 48123 Jan 8 16:34 dlico.zip

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