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1. Ixtab
   In Maya mythology, Ixtab is the goddess of the hanged and of suicide. She spent her time dangling from the sky with a noose round her neck - except when she came to earth to gather the souls of suicides and transport them into paradise.
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2. Ixtab
   Image:Ixtab.jpg According to Diego de Landa, `Ixtab` 'Rope Woman' was the Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide. In Yucatec society, suicide, especially suicide by hanging, was under circumstances considered an honorable way to die. Ixtab would accompany such suicides to paradise (thus playing the role of a psychopomp). The picture of a dead woman with a rope around the neck in the Dresden Codex is often taken to represent the goddess. Since it occu...
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3. Ixtab
   Image:Ixtab.jpg According to Diego de Landa, `Ixtab` 'Rope Woman' was the Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide. In Yucatec society, suicide, especially suicide by hanging, was under circumstances considered an honorable way to die. Ixtab would accompany such suicides to paradise (thus playing the role of a psychopomp). The picture of a dead woman with a rope around the neck in the Dresden Codex is often taken to represent the goddess. Since it occu...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtab