The Maya goddess of suicide. Ixtab was portrayed as dangling from the sky with a rope round her neck; her eyes were closed in death and her cheeks already showed the first signs of decomposition. It was believed that suicides by hanging, warriors killed in battle, sacrificial victims, women who died in childbirth and members of the priesthood went directly to paradise. Ixtab came to fetch these lucky souls. In the delectable shade of the cosmic tree yaxche, the inhabitants of paradise could rest from labour, and escape from all suffering and want.”
Cotterell, A., A Dictionary of World Mythology (Oxford University Press, 1979), Page 213
They said also and held it as absolutely certain that those who hanged themselves went to the heaven of theirs; and on this account there were many persons who on slight occasions of sorrows, troubles or sicknesses, hanged themselves in order to escape these things and to go and rest in their heaven, where they said that the goddess of the gallows, whom they called Ix Tab, came to fetch them.
Landa's Relation de las Casas de Yucatan, a translation, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, v. XVIII, 1941