Huracan, also called Heart of Sky, is a Maya creator god of wind, storm and fire named in the Popol Vuh of the Kiche Maya. He is a threefold deity, a single power manifest in three lightning-aspects whose names are given as Thunderbolt Huracan, Newborn Thunderbolt and Sudden (or Raw) Thunderbolt, three flashes of the one god, an early instance of a deity conceived as three-in-one. He dwells in the sky and works through the storm and the lightning-stroke. His name is the source, through Spanish and the Caribbean, of the English word hurricane, carried into European languages from the great storms of the region.
In the Popol Vuh's creation narrative, Huracan works together with Gucumatz, the Kiche form of the Feathered Serpent, deliberating in the darkness before the world existed and bringing forth land, mountains and, eventually, human beings, largely through the spoken word, an act of creation by speech that gives the Kiche account its own version of a widespread ancient theme. The Popol Vuh itself survives only through a single manuscript, a Kiche-language text transcribed alongside a Spanish translation around 1701 by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximenez from an earlier document, now lost, that had itself been written down in the Latin alphabet by literate Kiche nobles sometime after the Spanish conquest, so that Huracan's fullest surviving myth rests on a chain of transmission running through colonial-era Guatemala rather than on any surviving pre-conquest original text.