Hunab Ku

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Hunab Ku was the supreme creator God of the Maya. Hunab Ku represented the solar calendar, balanced forces, and perfection.^[1]

[edit] Hunab Ku as God

According to some early-colonial sources, Hunab Ku, meaning 'Sole God', was the main deity in the Yucatec Mayan pantheon. No images existed of Hunab Ku since he was considered to be without visible form. The concept may have been invented to satisfy the Spanish monks. Hunab Ku is, in any case, closely related to the indigenous creator god, Itzamna.

[edit] Hunab Ku as Symbol

Popularized by Jose Arguelles in his esoteric 1987 book The Mayan Factor, the "Hunab Ku" symbol was originally a rectangular symbol used by the Aztecs as a ritual cloak design, known as the Mantle of Lip Plugs (or, arguably, mantle of spider water). The symbol survives today as a rug design being sold in central Mexico, but was associated with the Milky Way and the god Hunab Ku by Arguelles, who changed the symbol to a circular motif. It has become associated with Mayanism.

The symbols first known appearance is in the 16th century Codex Magliabecchiano.^[2]

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