IXCHEL In Maya mythos, the angry old woman who emptied the vials of her wrath on the earth, and assisted the serpent in creating the deluge. Ixchel was the goddess of floods and cloudbursts, a malevolent deity likely to cause sudden destruction in a tropical storm. She was the consort of Itzamna, and appears as a clawed water goddess, surrounded by the symbols of death and destruction, a writhing serpent on her head, and crossbones embroidered on her skirt.