Editing Bacab (section)

===Ritual===
The veneration of the Bacabs was closely connected to that of the so-called Year Bearers and their prognostics. Each Bacab ruled one of the directions and the associated Year Bearer day (one of four New Year days), as follows:
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Direction
!Color
!Years
|-
|[[Cantzicnal]]
|North
|White
|Muluc
|-
|[[Kan Ekʼ|Ho' Chan Ek]]
|West
|Black
|Kawaq
|-
|[[Hobnil]]
|East
|Red
|Kan
|-
|[[Zac-Cimi]]
|South
|Yellow
|Ix
|}

The Bacabs were invoked in connection with rain and agriculture, since they were intimately associated with the four [[Chaac]]s, or rain deities, and the [[Pauahtuns|Pawahtuns]], or wind deities, all located in the four directions. The Maya of Chan Kom referred to the four skybearers as the four Chacs (Redfield and Villa Rojas).
 
Since they were Year Bearer patrons, and also because of their meteorological qualities, the Bacabs were important in divination ceremonies; they were approached with questions about crops, weather, or the health of bees (Landa). 

In addition, the "Four Gods, Four Bacabs" were often invoked in curing rituals that had the four-cornered world and its beaches for a theatre, which is the basic reason why the most important early-colonial collection of Yucatec curing texts, the ''[[Ritual of the Bacabs]]'', has been named after them.