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[[File:Way Paat Ahiin.png|thumb|Hole-backed Caiman image in  Bonampak mural]]
Way Paat Ahiin is Mayan constellation for Hole-backed Caiman. 

==Etymology and History==

Way Paat Ahiin is the Milky Way in a vertical position relative to the horizon. This half-crocodile half-deer creature was sacrificed in a mythical time before the present one, an event which caused a storm of blood marking the end of the primordial chaos. On its back, the four trees -that lifted and hold the sky were placed- along with another supernatural being stepping on top of the decapitated body, thus fertilizing, founding or establishing the current order of things.<ref>The Paris Codex: Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript ([https://www.academia.edu/25028815/The_Paris_Codex_Complex_Analysis_of_an_Ancient_Maya_Manuscript_Dissertation_?auto=download Dissertation]) by Jakub Špoták</ref><ref>Eduardo Rodas-Quito and Javier Mejuto (online). Maya sky culture in Stellarium, <nowiki>https://github.com/stellarium/stellarium</nowiki> , printed in Hoffmann and Wolfschmidt (eds., 2022), Astronomy in Culture --Cultures of Astronomy. Astronomie in der Kultur--Kulturen der Astronomie.: Featuring the Proceedings of the Splinter Meeting at the Annual Conference of the Astronomische Gesselschafb Sept. 14-16, 2021, tredition, Ahrensburg (Germany): 702-705.</ref>

==Mythology==

==IAU Working Group on Star Names==
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