Alux (plural: Aluxob) from Yucatec language is a bigfoot-like hominid belonging to the Mayan mythology found in Yucatan, Mexico et and Guatemala.
Derived names: Ahlu't, Aluche, A'lus, Barux, Kat.
Ape-like creatures have been reported in many areas of South America, and they go by many different names, depending on the region: Goazis, Guayazis, Aigypans, Vasitris, Matuyus, Curupiras, Curinqueans.
Sightings
The famous explorer Colonel P. H. Fawcett mysteriously disappeared in the Brazilian wilds in 1925 while he was in search of a highly advanced civilization inhabited by a tribe of white long-hair natives. The Colonel's diaries were preserved up to his last fatal expedition, and published by his son, Brian Fawcett, under the title Lost Trails, Lost Cities. In it, the Colonel describes an encounter in 1914 with a group of enormous hairy savages that, although looked very primitive, were carrying bows and arrows. Apparently these wild men could not speak, but just grunt, and upon arriving their village, the Colonel and his group were on the verge of being attacked, barely avoiding capture or death by firing their guns into the ground at the ape-men's feet, who then fled in terror.