Mua Mua

The Mua Mua religion is that of the Pech, a Chibchan-speaking people of northeastern Honduras, who say they are the children of the lightning god Mua Mua. Lightning bolts are the spirits of the ancient men who rid the earth of the lizard-like Chaca-Chacay and of cannibal giants led by Takascró; the Pech sprang from them.

Mua Mua also fathered the god Patakako, conceived through white river foam as his mother washed clothes. With the rainbow god Piritakata, Patakako travelled to the end of the world, where four pillars hold up the universe.

He later climbed the nine levels of the sky to meet Kako, his nine-eyed counterpart. In the 1620s the Spanish gathered the Pech into mission towns, and Catholic faith replaced the old stories.