Editing Ixchel (section)

==Meaning of the name==
[[Image:Ixchel.svg|thumb|Name glyph of Ix Chel including the prefix 'red', Dresden Codex]]

The name Ixchel was in use in 16th-century [[Yucatán]] and amongst the [[Poqomchiʼ people|Poqom]] in the [[Baja Verapaz]].<ref>Poqom, Miles 1957: 748</ref> Its meaning is not certain. Assuming that the name originated in Yucatán, ''chel'' could mean "[[rainbow]]". Her glyphic names in the [[Maya codices|(Post-Classic) codices]] have two basic forms, one a prefix with the primary meaning of "red" (''chak'') followed by a portrait glyph ("[[pictogram]]"), the other one logosyllabic. Ix Chel's Classic name glyph remains to be identified. It is quite possible that several names were in use to refer to the goddess, and these need not necessarily have included her late Yucatec and Poqom name. Her codical name is now generally rendered as "Chak Chel".