Illustration
Ixtab was the Maya goddess of suicide who guides suicides to eternal paradise - depicted as the decaying corpse of a woman hanging from a noose in the heavens. This is an artist's impression of Ixtab drawn by Chloe Bonnet.
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Cite This Work
APA Style
Bonnet, C. (2019, November 07). Ixtab. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11431/ixtab/
Chicago Style
Bonnet, Chloe. "Ixtab." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified November 07, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11431/ixtab/.
MLA Style
Bonnet, Chloe. "Ixtab." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 07 Nov 2019. Web. 24 Apr 2024.
