[Aztlan] God L

[Karen Bassie]

I should have said in my previous posting that the principal "diet" of 
laughing falcons is snakes, rather than the principal "deity" of 
laughing falcons. Hey, I have dyslexia.  I should have also mentioned in 
my previous posting that the name phrase for the bird in God L's 
headdress is Oxlajuun Chan Kuy  "Thirteen Sky Owl" as noted by Grube and 
Schele.
There are three old gods in the codices that Schellhas gave the 
designations God D, God L and God N. In the hieroglyphic text, the name 
glyph for each of these deities are represented by their portraits. One 
of the diagnostic traits of God D is that he wears a flower headdress 
that is infixed with an ak'bal "night or darkness" sign. There is a 
supernatural bird illustrated in Maya art that also wears this ak'bal 
headdress, and it has been identified as the avian manifestation of God 
D. God D and three other gods (God A, God K, and God G) appear in the 
Dresden Codex New Year pages engaged in putting the quadrilateral world 
in order. God D was first identified as Itzamnaaj because he appears in 
these scenes performing the New Year functions that Bishop Diego de 
Landa indicated were performed by Itzamnaaj.

<>The diagnostic trait of God N is a net bag headdress or water lily 
headdress. As noted by Dave Stuart, God D is actually a conflation of 
God N and the Itzamnaaj bird. In other words, God D and God N are 
manifestations of the same deity. Dave has also shown that the name of 
God N was not Pawahtun.