Tohil – Tohil god of fire, the sun, war, and rain of the K’iche’ Mayans
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Tohil is an Avian scout master. Chantico Blue Air sends you into Cloudburst Forrest to check on he and his flock of younglings. Checking on the safety of Bacab Clearing, Scout Master Tohil was detained by Bacab Skycarrier. Tohil needs rescuing.
Tohil (also spelled Tojil) was a deity of the Kʼicheʼ Maya in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.
At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Tohil was the patron god of the Kʼicheʼ and was included of the Tolteca pantheon that was influenced in the high lands mayan culture. Tohil’s principal function was that of a fire deity and he was also both a war god, sun god and the god of rain. Tohil was also associated with mountains and he was a god of war, sacrifice and sustenance. In the Kʼicheʼ epic Popul Vuh, after the first people were created, they gathered at the mythical Tollan or Tula, the Place of the Seven Caves, to receive their language and their gods. The Kʼicheʼ, and others, there received Tohil. Tohil demanded blood sacrifice from the Kʼicheʼ and so they offered their own blood and also that of sacrificed captives taken in battle. In the Popul Vuh this consumption of blood by Tohil is likened to the suckling of an infant by its mother.
Illustration from the Popul Vuh
Tohil may originally part of the Tolteca pantheon and was introduced in the post-classic Mayan culture. He has been compared the god Qʼuqʼumatz, and shared the attributes of the feathered serpent with that deity. They later diverged and each deity came to have a separate priesthood. Sculptures of a human face emerging between the jaws of a serpent were common from the end of the Classic Period through to the Late Postclassic and may represent Qʼuqʼumatz in the act of carrying Hunahpu, the youthful avatar of the sun god Tohil, across the sky. The god’s association with human sacrifice meant that Tohil was one of the first deities that the Spanish clergy tried to eradicate after the conquest of Guatemala.
The Kaqchikel tribe was in disagreement about the human sacrifice demanded from Tohil to bring them the fire. For this reason they stole fire from the deity (Kaqchikel means fire thieves) and is the principal cause of enmity between the K’iche and Kaqchikel people.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
Scout Master Tohil image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Human Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice Before the God Tohil; illustration for Popol Vuh, ca. 1930, courtesy Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA This is is believed to be in the public domain.
Tohil god of fire image is borrowed from https://multepal.spanitalport.virginia.edu/node/717 No copyright information is given at the page.
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