Huracán

Huracán, ‘One-Leg’, also called U K’ux Kaj, ‘Heart of Sky’, was also a K’iche’ Maya god of fire, and one of the creator gods who took part in all three attempts to make humankind. He brought the great flood when the second generation of humans angered the gods.

The Popol Vuh says he lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and called out ‘earth’ until land rose from the sea. His name recalls God K, the Classic Maya lightning god with one serpent leg.