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on the eastern shores of the island of Cozumel, where the ruins of several temples
to him and Ixchel still stand, just off the Yucatan peninsula.
Moving to the mainland, he built the first version of Chichen Itza and 140
other ceremonial centers and cities. The Mayas believed Itzamna brought all the
arts of civilization to Yucatan after the Great Flood. These included city-planning,
astronomy-astrology, agriculture, writing, organized labor, sculpture, mathematics,
book-illumination, government, and music. He is portrayed in temple art, such as
friezes at the Maya ceremonial center of Tikal, in Guatemala, as a long-nosed,
bearded man rowing his boat across the sea from which he came.
(See Ixchel)Ix Chebel Yax
The Maya goddess of household affairs and wisdom, she was daughter of
Itzamna and Ixchel. As such, Ix Chebel Yax was among the first generation of
Yucatan-born Atlantean refugees from the final destruction of their homeland.
She taught spinning, weaving, dyeing, and basketry, as learned from her mother,
the White Lady—qualities which describe the introduction of civilization to Middle
America.Ixchel
The Mayas’ “White Lady,” who brought the civilized arts of weaving, medicine,
and prophesy from her lost kingdom over the Atlantic Ocean after a great flood.
Both she and her Aztec incarnation, Coyolxauqui, were symbolized by a crystal
skull, signifying their special relationship to the moon (the heavenly crystal skull)
and, hence, psychic powers. In temple art and surviving codexes, Ixchel is depictedTemple to Itzamna, on the island of Cozumel, where
he was said to have first landed in Yucatan, follow-
ing the watery destruction of his distant homeland. Marxist rebels climb to the top of Tikal’s highest
pyramid. Although completed long after the de-
struction of Atlantis, it preserved several references
to the sunken civilization.