Before revision: In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans (hechiceros), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of "the Goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel" were brought forward.Tozzer 1941: 154 In the Ritual of the Bacabs, Ixchel is once called "grandmother".Roys 1965: 53 In their combination, the goddess's two principal domains (birthing and healing) suggest an analogy with the aged Aztec goddess of midwifery, Tocî Yoalticitl.
After revision: In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans (hechiceros), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of "the Goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel" were brought forward.Tozzer 1941: 154 In the Ritual of the Bacabs, Ixchel is once called "grandmother".Roys 1965: 53 In their combination, the goddess's two principal domains (birthing and healing) suggest an analogy with the aged Aztec goddess of midwifery, Toci Yoalticitl.