Heart of the Heavens

Question: You have said in the blog that Hurakan is not suitable as an Aztec Titan. So is he a Maya Titan or is he a Maya god?

Indeed, Huracan is not an Aztec Titan. Despite the fact that there are some crossover figures between the Aztec and Maya pantheons, Huracan probably isn't one of them; he's a Maya as they come, featured prominently as a creator deity in the Popol Vuh and unattested in Aztec mythology. The only possible analogue comes with the theory that Huracan might be the Maya version of Tezcatlipoca, based on the fact that both of them have only one leg and hang out with Quetzalcoatl a lot, but if that's the case they've grown apart so far that it's practically impossible to compare them (and, considering that the enigmatic Tepeu is also possibly the Maya form of Tezcatlipoca, it's by no means a certain theory).

I think you could play the venerable Heart of the Sky either way. He's very ancient, very primordial and mostly absent from iconography and myth after the creation of the world, all classic signs of Titanhood; but he's also generally benevolent, directly helping the Hero Twins in their adventures and even descending into Xibalba to aid them when things are looking most grim. He certainly participates in the destruction of the first several races of mankind thanks to them failing to live up to his standards, and some translators of the PV think he's the driving force behind the great flood that destroyed the Third World and made way for the Fourth; but, on the other hand, some translators instead point to the involvement of Tepeu and Gukumatz, and the idea that it may be more likely that it was they who destroyed the previous worlds, just as they do in Aztec mythology.

I would probably lean toward playing Huracan as a Titan rather than a god, mostly because he has little connection to the rest of the pantheon and diminishes in representation once the primordial task of creation is complete. He'd be a great example of a creation Titan - if you're using Stvaranje from our Bogovi supplement, he'd fit right in over there as a Titan representing absolute perfection in creation, and he might either not oppose the gods all that strenuously or be an antagonist for them thanks to his desire to sweep away this imperfect world and create the next, just as he did the last few times.

If you're set on keeping him around as a playable god, though, I'd suggest pursuing the theory that, thanks again to the one-legged imagery, he's the same as the codical God K or Bolon Dzacab, lending Chaac his power over the storm and appearing in the alternative (and insanely difficult to figure out) creation myths of the Book of Chilam Balam. As the original creator who gives the Hero Twins their orders and puts the universe into its correct configuration, he could be used as a sort of father god for the pantheon.

(Look at that, guys, I got through the whole post without derailing into bitching about the original Scion line's blithe treatment of Aztec and Maya mythology as the same thing!)