Ixtab (iʃˈtaɓ) or Rope Woman was the Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide according to Diego de Landa. In Yucatec society, under certain circumstances, suicide, especially suicide by hanging, was considered an honorable way to die. Ixtab would accompany such suicides to paradise (thus playing the role of a psychopomp). Here, joined by people who di...
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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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