Kawil Green Song – Kʼawiil – Mayan Lightning Deity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%CA%BCawiil
Kawil Green Song’s cousins have been imprisoned by the Shadow Queen. He needs your wizard’s help to free them from the cocoons they are entombed in.
Kʼawiil, in the Post-Classic codices corresponding to God K, is a Maya deity identified with lightning, serpents, fertility and maize. He is characterized by a zoomorphic head, with large eyes, long, upturned snout and attenuated serpent foot. A torch, stone celt, or cigar, normally emitting smoke, comes out of his forehead, while a serpent leg represents a lightning bolt. In this way, Kʼawiil personifies the lightning axe both of the rain deity and of the king as depicted on his stelae.
Lightning plays a crucial role in tales dealing with the creation of the world and its preparation for the advent of mankind. In the cosmogony of the Popol Vuh, three Lightning deities identified with the ‘Heart of the Sky’ create the earth out of the primordial sea, and people it with animals.
The illustrated katun cycle of the Paris Codex suggests that the presentation of the head of Kʼawiil – perhaps holding the promise of ‘Innumerable Generations’ – was part of the king’s ritual inauguration and accession to the throne. Kʼawiil not only embodied the king’s war-like lightning power, but also his power to bring agricultural prosperity to his subjects: The Lightning deity was a god of agricultural abundance, and of the maize and cacao seeds in particular. Therefore, he is often depicted with a sack of grains, sometimes accompanied by the expression hun yax(al) hun kʼan(al) ‘abundance’.
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