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Īxpoztequeh, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Iixpuzteque was Nexoxochi's husband. Tzontēmōc, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Tzontemoc was Chalmeccacihuatl's husband. Xolotl, god of death who is associated with Venus and the Evening Star. He is the twin god and a double of Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl, god of life, the light and wisdom, lord of the winds and daytime, ruler of the West. Huitzilopochtli, god of war and sacrifice, lord of the sun and fire, ruler of the South. Xolotl, god of lightning, death, and fire, associated with Venus as the Evening Star (Twin of Quetzalcoatl) Ehecatl, god of wind (a form of Quetzalcoatl)
[1] [2] Miguel Leon Portilla argues that Tloque Nahuaque was also used as an epithet of Ometeotl, the hypothetical duality creator God of the Aztecs. [3] Tloquenahuaque, also referred to as Tloque Nahuaque or Tloque Naoaque, is a creator god in Aztec mythology. Meso-Americans knew this god by other names as well, "Moyocoyani or Hunab Ku". [4]
Many gods in the pantheon of deities of the Aztecs were inclined to have a fondness for a particular aspect of warfare. However, Huitzilopochtli was known as the primary god of war in ancient Mexico. [30] Since he was the patron god of the Mexica, he was credited with both the victories and defeats that the Mexica people had on the battlefield.
In his new position of power, he refuses to go into motion until the gods make sacrifice to him. In an elaborate ceremony, Quetzalcoatl cuts the hearts out of each of the gods and offers it to Tonatiuh (and the moon Meztli). All of this occurs in the ancient and sacred, pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacan. It is predicted that eventually, like the ...
The Aztecs [a] (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
A small fire was permanently kept alive at the sacred center of every Aztec home in honor of Xiuhtecuhtli. [14] The Nahuatl word xihuitl means "year" as well as "turquoise" and "fire", [11] and Xiuhtecuhtli was also the god of the year and of time. [15] [16] The Lord of the Year concept came from the Aztec belief that Xiuhtecuhtli was the North ...
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