Ixtab
Sign in to saveAt the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ]; "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to heaven.
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- Image from the Dresden Codex which may be a depiction of Ixtab.
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- Mayan
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- file:Ixtab.jpg
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At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán (1527–1546), Ix Tab or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ]; "Rope Woman", "Hangwoman") was the indigenous Maya goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp, she would accompany such suicides to heaven.
== Sources == The only description of the goddess occurs in the Relación of the 16th-century Spanish inquisitor Diego de Landa:
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