Bacab Skycarrier – Bacab, Mayan four-fold god who supported the sky
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Bacab_Skycarrier
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bacab
Bacab Skycarrier has taken Scout Master Tohil captive. He is confused by your wizard’s appearance and refers to himself in the ‘Royal Plural,’ “What manner of beast is this, come to disturb us in these twilight hours?” “Argh! We should have left that Scout Master where we found him!”
Bacab, in Mayan mythology, any of four gods, thought to be brothers, who, with upraised arms, supported the multilayered sky from their assigned positions at the four cardinal points of the compass. (The Bacabs may also have been four manifestations of a single deity.) The four brothers were probably the offspring of Itzamná, the supreme deity, and Ixchel, the goddess of weaving, medicine, and childbirth. Each Bacab presided over one year of the four-year cycle. The Maya expected the Muluc years to be the greatest years, because the god presiding over these years was the greatest of the Bacab gods. The four directions and their corresponding colours (east, red; north, white; west, black; south, yellow) played an important part in the Mayan religious and calendrical systems.
Bas-relief with red and black paint seams. Maya artwork from Palenque (Mexico) made in the Late Classic Period. It shows a bacab over an imix’s head. It’s one of the pieces that held the Palenque’s throne at one of the rooms of the Palace’s Central Courtyard.
The Bacabs “were four brothers whom God placed, when he created the world, at the four points of it, holding up the sky so that it should not fall. […] They escaped when the world was destroyed by the deluge.” Their names were Hobnil, Cantzicnal, Zac-Cimi, and Hosan-Ek.
The Bacabs played an important role in the cosmological upheaval associated with Katun 11 Ahau, when Oxlahuntiku ‘Thirteen-god’ was humbled by Bolontiku ‘Nine-god’. According to the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, “then the sky would fall, it would fall down, it would fall down upon the earth, when the four gods, the four Bacabs, were set up, who brought about the destruction of the world.”
| Name | Direction | Color | Year |
| Cantzicnal | North | White | Muluc |
| Hosan-Ek | South | Yellow | Cauac |
| Hobnil | East | Red | Kan |
| Zac-Cimi | West | Black | Ix |
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
Bacab Skycarrier image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Throne support from Palenque image is borrowed from Wikipedia and is copyright Estela de Madrid (Museo de América) it is shared under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons license.
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