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[[Image:AhPuch.jpg|right|frame|Ah Puch depicted in the [[Dresden Codex]]]] |
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In [[Maya mythology]], '''Ah Puch''' (Alternatively '''Ahpuch''' or '''Hun ahau''' where the first /a/ is sometimes omitted if the words are pronounced continuously) was the [[Death deity|God of death]] and King of [[Metnal]], the [[underworld]]. He was depicted as a skeleton or corpse adorned with bells, sometimes the head of an [[owl]]; even today, some [[Mexican]]s and [[Central American]]s believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death... as the following saying, in local Spanish, indicates: |
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: ''Cuando el tecolote canta... el indio muere'' (When the great owl sings, the Indian dies) |
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==See also== |
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*[[Mictlantecuhtli]] |
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[[Category:Death gods]] |
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[[Category:Personifications of death]] |
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[[Category:Underworld gods]] |
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[[Category:Maya gods]] |
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[[Category:Guatemalan folklore]] |
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{{mesoamerica-myth-stub}} |
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[[es:Ah Puch]] |
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[[lt:Achpučas]] |
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[[ja:ア・プチ]] |
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[[sl:An Puch]] |
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[[fi:Ah Puch]] |
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[[sv:Ah Puch]] |
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[[fr:Ah Puch]] |
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