Ix Chel, Mayan moon goddess, sometimes called "Lady Rainbow", is often pictured as a serpent crone wearing a skirt and crossbones. She carries an upside-down vessel in her hands which represents the nourishing gift of water, our most essential life giving element. She wears a serpent on her head representing her transformation from the winter to spring energy - shedding her winter skin in order to blossom anew into spring to a new and fresh stage in the life cycle.

Ix Chel is a shape-shifter, consorting with the rabbit in spring (fertility and life giving abundance). She is at once a maiden (goddess of fertility and life, protector of women in childbirth), and a crone - the serpent reflects her status as a wise woman dispensing healing visions. She is the keeper of the life cycle, goddess of all new life and keeper of the bones and souls of the dead.

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