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God B (the rain god)

The god whom Paul Schellhas and Ernst Förstemann called B, the commonest figure in the Dresden Codex, shown with an axe, torches and serpents. SLUB's catalogue calls him the rain god.

Offerings for the Rain God (Dresden Codex, Pages 33 and 35)

Dresden Codex, pages 33 and 35: almanacs of the god B, with offerings, fishing and the serpent in the water (Yucatán, before the Spanish conquest) · painted in Yucatán, probably in the century before the Spanish conquest

33a.1

B · west–Imix? · Kin–Akbal · cross-hatched sign with Kan

God B · the day Imix, perhaps marked with the west · day and night · a cross-hatched sign with maize

33b.1

south · Xul · head with Akbal eye · B–east · [?] · A?

The south · the end · the beginning · god B, joined to the east · [unread] · perhaps the death god

33b.3

Manik · B · Cauac · 9 spiral · head without lower jaw · Caban–Muluc?

The day Manik · god B · Cauac, the sign of rain and water · nine, with a spiral for the serpent · a head with no lower jaw · Caban with a sign like Muluc

35a

year-sign with cross · 9 Imix · cross · D–Akbal · … · 9 cross · Kin–Akbal · 1 Moan–1 Caban · B · [?] · west–Imix · [?]

A year sign · nine Imix · the cross · god D, with darkness · [three signs lost] · nine, with the cross · day and night · one Moan and one Caban · god B · [unread] · Imix, with the west · [worn away]

35b.1

Manik · B · Cauac · 9 spiral · head without lower jaw · Caban–Muluc?

The day Manik · god B · Cauac, rain and water · nine, with a spiral for the serpent · a head with no lower jaw · Caban with a sign like Muluc