 Ixchel figures in a Verapaz myth related by Las Casas, according to which she, together with her spouse, Itzamna, had thirteen sons, two of whom created heaven and earth and all that belongs to it.No other myth figuring Ixchel has been preserved.However, her mythology may once have focused on the sweatbath, the place where Maya mothers were wont to go before and after birthgiving.