Qʼuqʼumatz
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Qʼuqʼumatz (Mayan: [qʼuːqʼuːˈmats]; alternatively Gukumatz) was a god of wind and rain of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya. It was the Feathered Serpent that according to the Popol Vuh created the world and humanity, together with the god Tepeu.[1] It carried the sun across the sky and down into the underworld and acted as a mediator between the various powers in the Maya cosmos.[2] It is considered to be the equivalent of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl[3] and of Kukulkan, of the Yucatec Maya.[4]
Qʼuqʼumatz was also associated with water, clouds, and the sky. Together with Tepeu, god of lightning and fire,[5] it was considered to be the mythical ancestor of the Kʼicheʼ nobility by direct male line.[6]
Kotujaʼ, the Kʼicheʼ king who founded the city of Qʼumarkaj, bore the name of the deity as a title and was likely to have been a former priest of the god. The priests of Qʼuqʼumatz at Qʼumarkaj, the Kʼicheʼ capital, were drawn from the dominant Kaweq dynasty and acted as stewards in the city.