Ixchel or Ix Chel (pronounce [ˈiʃtʃel]) is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in the ancient Mayan culture. She corresponds, more or less, to Toci Yoalticitl ‘Our Grandmother the Nocturnal Physician’, an Aztec earth goddess inhabiting the sweatbath, and also appears to be related to another Aztec goddess invoked at birth, viz. Cihuacoatl. In Taube's revised Schellhas-Zimmermann classification of codical deities, Ixchel corresponds to the goddess O.