The prefix _ah_, signifies one who practices or is skilled in the action which the verb denotes.] [Footnote 2: The mother of the Bacabs is given in the myth as _Chibilias_ (or _Chibirias_, but there is no _r_ in the Maya alphabet).

Cogolludo mentions a goddess _Ix chebel yax_, one of whose functions was to preside over drawing and painting.

The name is from _chebel_, the brush used in these arts.

But the connection is obscure.] The supposed Holy Ghost, Echuac, properly Ah-Kiuic, Master of the Market, was the god of the merchants and the cacao plantations.

He formed a triad with two other gods, Chac, one of the rain gods, and Hobnel, also a god of the food supply.