Editing Bacab (section)

===Myth===
The Bacabs "were four brothers whom God placed, when he created the world, at the four points of it, holding up the sky so that it should not fall. [...] They escaped when the world was destroyed by the deluge."<ref>Landa, in Tozzer 1941: 135-136</ref> Their names were Hobnil, Cantzicnal, Saccimi, and Hosanek. 

The Bacabs played an important role in the cosmological upheaval associated with [[K'atun|Katun]] 11 Ahau, when Oxlahuntiku 'Thirteen-god' was humbled by Bolontiku 'Nine-god'. According to the Book of [[Chilam Balam]] of Chumayel, "then the sky would fall, it would fall down, it would fall down upon the earth, when the four gods, the four Bacabs, were set up, who brought about the destruction of the world."<ref>Roys 1967: 99-100</ref>

According to Francisco Hernández (quoted by Las Casas and [[Diego López de Cogolludo]]), the Bacab (apparently a unitary concept) was the son of the creator god, [[Itzamna]], and of the goddess Ixchebelyax; he had once been humbled, killed, and revived.