"Traditional name"
The name Ixchel is commonly a female name.
Ixchel is the name of a goddess in Maya religion, recorded in colonial Yucatec Maya sources and associated with the moon, medicine and weaving. Reference works on Maya religion gloss the name as Lady Rainbow, from the Yucatec Maya feminine prefix ix and chel, rainbow. It belongs to the Maya naming tradition rather than being a modern formation.
The pronunciation of Ixchel is ee-SHEL.
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