About this deity
Kukulkan was one of the main deities in Mayan religion and traditionally depicted as a feathered serpent. A pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico, is devoted to Kukulkan.
Also known as
Parent belief system
Mayan Religion · Polytheistic · 1 mythMayan religion refers to the spiritual beliefs and customs of some indigenous people from Mesoamerica, mainly Mexico and Guatemala.
Top myths
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| Popol Vuh (Pupul Wuj) | |
| Creation, Flood myth | |
| Francisco Ximenez | |
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Mythological stories including Kukulkan
- Popol Vuh (Pupul Wuj) Creation, Flood myth
Nuthsell
Deities first created the world and made humans from clay, then wood. These humans were emotionless and destroyed by the deities in a flood, who turn them into monkeys. Later, the first four people are made and named after the Jaguar animal.
Cite this page
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Kukulkan." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 25 Jul. 2019, omnika.org/stable/237. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
OMNIKA (2019, July 25). Kukulkan. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/237
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Kukulkan." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created July 25, 2019. Accessed May 9, 2025. https://omnika.org/stable/237.
