Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Huracan Vicious Sky

Huracan Vicious Sky – Huracan, Maya god of wind, storm, and fire
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Huracan_Vicious_Sky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huracan
http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-creation-story.html

Huracan Vicious Sky

Huracan Vicious Sky, also known as The Horn, helps Morganthe reach Xibalba. While calling Xibalba to rain down its destruction for the Shadow Queen, Huracan alludes to the Aztec creation myth and the nine level of the Aztecan Underworld.

Let the winds tear you down and send you to the nine levels of the Underworld!

Huracan Vicious Sky

Huracan (Mayan: Hunraqan, “one legged”), often referred to as U Kʼux Kaj, the “Heart of Sky”, is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. He also caused the Great Flood after the second generation of humans angered the gods. He supposedly lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeatedly invoked “earth” until land came up from the seas.

His name, understood as ‘One-Leg’, suggests god K of Postclassic and Classic Maya iconography, a deity of lightning with one human leg, and one leg shaped like a serpent. God K is commonly referred to as Bolon Tzacab and Kʼawiil or Kauil. The name may ultimately derive from huracan, a Carib word, and the source of the words hurricane and orcan (European windstorm).

Huracan

Related deities are Tohil in Kʼiche mythology, Bolon Tzacab in Yucatec mythology, Cocijo in Zapotec mythology, and Tezcatlipoca in Aztec mythology.

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

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