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Bacab
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thumb|210px|right|Throne support from Palenque showing a young, named official acting as a bacab (Museum of the Americas, [[Madrid, Spain).]]
Bacab () is the generic Yucatec Maya name for the four prehispanic aged deities of the interior of the Earth and its water deposits. The Bacabs have more recent counterparts in the lecherous, drunken old thunder deities of the Gulf Coast regions. The Bacabs are also referred to as Pawahtuns.
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