Ixchel or Ix Chel[a] is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture.
She corresponds to Toci, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath. She is related to another Aztec goddess invoked at birth, viz. Cihuacoatl (or Ilamatecuhtli).[1]
In Taube's revised Schellhas-Zimmermann classification of codical deities, Ixchel corresponds to the Goddess O.
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- ^ Miller and Taube 1993: 101