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	Ix Chel
		Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the old Moon goddess in Mayan mythology.
		Ix Chel was depicted as an old woman wearing a skirt with crossed bones, and she had a serpent in her hand.
		Ix Chel had a kinder side and was worshipped as the protector of weavers and women in childbirth.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/Ix_Chel_moon.html (189 words)

	Ix Chel, the Maya Moon, Weaving, and Rainbow Goddess, by Thalia Took-- wicca art wiccan graphics goddess magical pagan ...
		Ix Chel is the Maya Goddess of the Moon, Water, Weaving and Childbirth.
		Ix Chel is a great Water Goddess, the consort of the chief God of the Maya pantheon, Votan.
		She (as Ix Chel) had a great shrine on the island of Cozumel (one of the places to which hurricane Wilma recently caused great destruction) to which pilgrims came from all over.
	www.thaliatook.com /AMGG/ixchel.html (0 words)

	Vered’s Blog » Blog Archive » Ix Chel - Creative Leadership
		This week’s Goddess is - Ix Chel (pronounced e’shell).
		Ix Chel was worshipped by the Maya of the Yucatan peninsula on Cozumel, her sacred island.
		Ix Chel was also in charge of weaving, magic, health, and healing, sexuality, water, and childbirth.
	www.feminine-leadership.com /blog/archives/82 (628 words)

	... gently gliding down the eternity of the moon river // la luna v. 2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the old Moon goddess in Maya mythology.
		Ix Chel was depicted as a malevolent old woman wearing a skirt with crossed bones and with a serpent in her hand.
		She had as an assistant, a sky serpent, who was said to possess all the waters of the heavens in its belly.
	www.animemanga.net /eclipse/usagi/index.php?s=maya.html (189 words)

	Mayan Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		It is said that Ix Chel became annoyed with the bahavior of the sun and so she went off into the night and remained invisible whenever the sun came around.
		At her new place in the night it is said that Ix Chel spent the nights nursing women of Earth through their labor (during the stint of their pregnancy and birth).
		Ix Chel was said to pay special attention to the pilgrims who visited Cozumel, which was her sacred island.
	www.crystalinks.com /mayangods.html (4879 words)

	Ix Chel
		Grieving dragonflies sang over Ix Chel for 13 days, at the end of which time she emerged, whole and alive, and followed her lover to his palace.
		He threw Ix Chel from heaven; she found sanctuary with the vulture divinity; the sun pursued her and lured her home; but immediately, he grew jealous again.
		Ix Chel, weary of the sun's behavior, left his home and his bed to wander the night as she wished, making herself invisible whenever he came near.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/ixchel.html (222 words)

	Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Karen Bassie - The Jolja' Cave Project
		Itzamna and his wife Ix Chel were the deities of medicine, and the priests and healers invoked them in their prayers (Tozzer 1941:153-55; Taube 1992).
		Ix Chel was the first woman to spin cotton, weave, bear children and be a mid-wife.
		In pre-Columbian belief, the first woman to spin cotton was Ix Chel (the waning moon goddess), and she even wears the cotton spindle in her headdress.
	www.famsi.org /reports/00017/section11.htm (1001 words)

	Ix Chel, Goddess of Creativity
		Ix Chel (pronounced e’ shell or eesh-chel) is the ancient moon goddess worshipped by the Maya throughout the Yucatán peninsula, Southern Mexico, and as far south as El Salvador for more than a millennium.
		In Mayan mythology, Ix Chel is the Mother of a pantheon of deities; she is an insightful, serene, and resplendent goddess, presiding over the Cycle of Life and acting as Keeper of Bones and the Souls of the Dead.
		Ix Chel is a shape shifter, portrayed as often as a young maiden radiant with the prosperity of life, as she is portrayed as a wizened crone sharing the wisdom of the ages with her people.
	www.lvcm.com /tao (684 words)

	IX CHEL Articles In Maya mythology, Ixchel or Ix Che
		In Maya mythology, Ixchel or Ix Chel was an earth and moon goddess, patroness of weavers and pregnant women.
		It is said that Ix Chel became annoyed with the behavior of the sun and so she went off into the night and remained invisible whenever the sun came around.
		Ix Chel was said to pay special attention to the pilgrims who visited Cozumel, which was her sacred island.
	amazines.com /Ix_Chel_related.html (534 words)

	Chocolate Deities
		Ix Chel, sacred silver disc of the darkened heavens, first woman of the world, graciously gifted the people of the Yucatan, Campeche and Guatamala, with the easing of childbirth and the knowledge of healing.
		So powerful was Ix Chel that when it was the time of the Haiyococab, the flooding and remaking of the earth, it was She who sent forth the inundating waters.
		And all the while, as Ix Chel stood by the mat of the one who was ill, She held the reed cradle in Her arms, signifying Her power over life.
	www.chocolatedeities.com /about.php?deity=ixchel (1803 words)

	Human Beams Magazine: Pagebreak
		Ix Chel is the Maya Goddess of the Moon, Water, Weaving and Childbirth.
		She (as Ix Chel) had a great shrine on the island of Cozumel (one of the places to which hurricane Wilma recently caused great destruction) to which pilgrims came from all over.
		Ix Chel is shown here in modern Maya traditional clothing featuring the astonishing gorgeous handwoven textiles still made in remote areas of Maya country (mostly modern-day Guatemala).
	pagebreak.humanbeams.com /index.php/pagebreak/comments/pb1006took_goddess_ix_chel (960 words)

	Mayan Goddess Ix Chel -- Rainbow Woman
		Ix Chel, the Mayan Goddess, has been a very powerful teacher for all women -- there is a Rainbow woman inside each of us.
		Ix Chel was born with a twin brother, and her parents were both priests.
		Ix Chel was very sad and very hurt and said, "I will go to the moon and there I will guide my people from the heart.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /ramirez_mayangoddess.htm (513 words)

	Ix Chel: A Mayan Moon Goddess (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ix Chel is a Mayan goddess of the moon, but she is also the goddess of childbirth, rainbows(?), weaving, fertility, and lovemaking.
		In ancient times, it was believed that a lunar eclipse was a great threat to pregnant women, causing their children to be be born with defects and abnormalities.
		Women who were going through labour at the time of an eclipse were supposedly in the greatest danger, so they were given amulets of Ix Chel to put under the bed during this time to protect them, and incantations and prayers were said to the goddess until the eclipse passed.
	www.angelfire.com /on/lunamoonworld/ixchel.html (100 words)

	THE MAYA EXPLORER
		However, in the codices she is normally presented as a water god, old and irate, surrounded by symbols of death and destruction, a coiled snake on her head, crossbones sewn onto her skirt and finger-and toenails resembling the claws of an animal, which has led some people to call her the tiger-clawed goddess.
		However, from her functions it is clear that Ix Chel was a moon goddess.
		Landa notes that on the sixth day of Zip there was a festival in honor of Ix Chel in her capacity as goddess of medicine, but he also says that the day before a dance called "okot uil" was performed.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004577/religion9.php3 (301 words)

	Giving Back - Wildland Adventures
		Ix Chel is a Belizean community-based organization devoted to rain forest conservation, researching new medical uses of rain forest plants, fostering ethno-botanical studies, preserving and teaching traditional Maya healing practices utilizing the rain forest pharmacopoeia.
		In conjunction with the New York Botanical Garden and the Institute of Economic Botany, the Ix Chel Foundation is researching traditional and potential new medical benefits from rain forest plants.
		Belizean school children are invited to visit Ix Chel Farm and conduct fieldwork with the staff, learning about the usefulness and conservation of the rain forest in their country.
	www.wildland.com /trips/centralamerica/bel_giving_back.aspx (415 words)

	IxChel, goddess of childbirth © Anita Ryan 2000
		Ix Chel, Mayan moon goddess, sometimes called "Lady Rainbow", is often pictured as a serpent crone wearing a skirt and crossbones.
		Ix Chel is a shape-shifter, consorting with the rabbit in spring (fertility and life giving abundance).
		She is at once a maiden (goddess of fertility and life, protector of women in childbirth), and a crone - the serpent reflects her status as a wise woman dispensing healing visions.
	www.goddess.com.au /goddesses/IxChel.htm (305 words)

	Metal Hordes - Extreme Metal Mp3s
		Ix Chel in Mayan mythology is the snake goddess of the moon.
		Ix Chel also presides over weaving, magic, health, and healing, sexuality, water, and childbirth and is responsible for creativity.
		When Ix Chel the goddess was killed, dragonflies hummed over her for 183 days until she was revived.
	metalhordes.com /bandprofiles.php?op=view&bid=1630 (163 words)

	Ix Chel - Mexiko-Lexikon
		Ix Chel, auch "Chack Chel" genannt, war in der Götterwelt der Maya die Herrin des Regenbogens und des Mondes.
		Ix Chel war jedoch nicht nur Göttin der Heilkunst sondern auch Überbringerin von Krankheiten.
		Ix Chel und Itzamná, Sohn von Hunab Ku, waren Vater und Mutter aller anderen Götter.
	www.mexiko-lexikon.de /mexiko/index.php?title=Ix_Chel (114 words)

	Athena Review Image Archive: Ix Chel, the Maya Moon Goddess
		The popular Maya Moon Goddess Ix Chel ("She of the rainbows") was patron of childbirth and healing, and the art of weaving.
		A Postclassic shrine to Ix Chel on the island of Cozumel was much visited by Mayans, and was probably still active when the Spaniards first arrived in 1518-19 during the voyages of Grijalva and Cortés.
		One of the paintings shows the goddess Ix Chel holding two small Chacs or rain deities.The central theme of these murals is fertility, maize and associated ceremonies of death and rebirth.
	www.athenapub.com /ixchel.htm (0 words)

	Frederick IX - Encyclopedia.com
		Frederick IX 1899-1972, king of Denmark (1947-72), son and successor of Christian X. He married (1935) Princess Ingrid of Sweden.
		Because he did not have a son the constitution was amended in 1953 to allow for a female heir to the throne; Frederick was succeeded by his daughter, Queen Margaret II.
		Mending the past: Ix Chel and the invention of a modern pop goddess.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Fred9Den.html (394 words)

	Athena's Web Weekly Column
		Ix in Mayan means the feminine, whether Lady, goddess, or woman.
		Ix Chel is the Moon Goddess, Goddess of Medicine, and Queen of the Mayan gods.
		Ix Chel was depicted as maiden or crone, reigned over pregnancy, childbirth, babies, and tapestries.
	www.athenasweb.com /2000/columns/Column033100.html (1175 words)

	LUNA SEA - Coming Soon! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ix Chel, goddess of the moon, sea and fertility and mother of all other gods.
		Women crossed the 12 mile, 3000 foot deep channel from the Yucatan to pay homage to Ix Chel for whom at least thirty shrines were built.
		It is here that the moon goddess, Ix Chel, has come to warn the Mayan Warlord, King of Zama, of the Spanish invasion that threatens their very way of life.
	www.roguecreations.com /lance/viscurreal/lunasea_overview.html (250 words)

	Mayan Mythology
		Ix Chel, the goddess of childbirth, was the wife of Itzamna, the god of all (see above).
		When Ix Chel was with her husband, she was warm and gentle; though most of the time she was very destructive, causing floods that washed away corn, destroyed fields, and claimed many human lives.
		Ix Tab would welcome people to this place if they had led good lives and hanged themselves.
	www.apagefromhistory.com /mayamyths.htm (1687 words)

	Ix Chel Farms and the Don Eligio Panti Medicinal Trail
		In 1981, Dr. Rosita Arvigo, an American doctor of naprapathy, moved with her husband and family to Belize, where they were determined to start a farm in the jungles of Western Belize and establish a natural healing clinic.
		The Ix Chel Tropical Research foundation began to hold conferences for practitioners of natural healing in Belize; from those conferences grew the Belize Association of Traditional Healers.
		Ix Chel Farms and the Panti Trail is right next door to Chaa Creek Resort.
	www.belize.com /ixchel.html (859 words)

	Ix Chel Farms and the Don Eligio Panti Medicinal Trail
		The 35 acre farm on which the family grew their food, as well as the healing herbs Arvigo learned about from Don Eligio, is named Ix Chel Farms, in honor of the Mayan Goddess of Healing.
		In 1987, Arvigo wrote to Michael Balick, the Director of the the Institue of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden about Ix Chel Farms and the work she was doing with Don Eligio Panti.
		Visitors to the Ix Chel Tropical Research Center can walk along the trail, which has signs in front of each medicinal tree and plant describing its history and uses.
	www.belize.com /ixchel.html/ic.pl (859 words)

	Goddess Exploration - Ix Chel
		“Ix Chel is a shape-shifter, consorting with the rabbit in spring,”
		In addition, Ix Chel teaches people to set boundaries with the uncanny amounts of stress that marriage and relationships can dish out.
		Ix Chel's escape from the sun is also a reminder that once and a while we need to take time for ourselves.
	thegoddessquarterly.info /Archives/Spring05/IxChel.htm (1097 words)

	Witchvox Article
		Ix Chel (pronounced EE-SHELL) or “Lady Rainbow” is a Mayan Goddess who rules over childbirth, medicine, weaving and water.
		Ix Chel is also commonly seen holding a vessel of water.
		At one time, Ix Chel took Itzamna, the Mayan sky and sun god, to be her lover.
	www.witchvox.com /va/dt_va.html?a=uswi&c=words&id=9983 (1662 words)

	Ix Chel
		Ix Chel, often called "Lady Rainbow", was a moon goddess of the Maya people.
		Ix Chel is all of life's fertility and is the continuation of all life, She is the mystery and joy of our female sexuality, and protector of our children.
		The Mayan stepped pyramid is lx Chel's mountain where She reigns as the feathered serpent energy of transformation.
	www.blueroebuck.com /ix_chel.htm (0 words)

	Sastun: My Apprenticeship. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the work expanded, the team founded the Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization conceived with the idea of bringing together visiting botanists and curanderos.
		An essential companion volume to Sastun, it is a straightforward compilation of a hundred of the more important medicinal plants that have been identified by the work at Ix Chel.
		It is fair to say that the work at Ix Chel -- ten years now and counting -- is unprecedented.
	www.herbalgram.org /youngliving/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=29 (1452 words)

	So the Maya Were Called
		If the father was named Chel, they would change their names to Ah Balam Chel and Ix Cuat Chel, respectively.
		While the Maya word, which literally meant "last name," is forgotten, we do know that after a ceremony, which can be compared to a baptism, the Maya took on their fathers' last name.
		Therefore, if the mother of Ah Balam Chel or Ix Cuat Chel had the last name Chan, they would change their names to Na Balam Chan Chel and Na Cuat Chan Chel, respectively.
	www.mayadiscovery.com /Ing/notes/maya-names.htm (428 words)

	May 7 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Art shows her wearing a skirt that flows with fertile waters, dotted with water lilies, and adorned with tiny bits of turquoise and jade.
		Ix Chel is present to witness, being part of the frost and part of the nurturing rains, for which the priest also pray.
		For our purposes this equates to calling on Ix Chel's energy to 'defrost' a frozen or emotionally chilly situation, or to rain on us with her healing power.
	www.dutchwitch.com /Mei/May_7.htm (213 words)

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