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Chalchiuhtlicue was highly revered in Aztec culture at the time of the Spanish conquest, and she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico. [5] Chalchiuhtlicue belongs to a larger group of Aztec rain gods, [6] and she is closely related to another Aztec water god called Chalchiuhtlatonal. [7]
Chālchiuhtlīcuē, goddess of running water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms, and baptism. [4] Acuecueyotl is Chalchiuhtlicue in disguise, but Acuecueyotl is also the god of rivers. Ātlatonān, patron goddess of those who are born with physical deformities or for unfortunate Mexica who suffered from open sores. This ...
Water deities. Tlaloc, god of rain, lightning and thunder. He is a fertility god. Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of running water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms, and baptism. Huixtocihuatl, goddess of salt; Opochtli, god of fishing and birdcatchers, discoverer of both the harpoon and net; Atlahua, god of water, a fisherman ...
In Aztec cosmology, the four corners of the universe are marked by "the four Tlálocs" (Classical Nahuatl: Tlālōquê [tɬaːˈloːkeʔ]) which both hold up the sky and function as the frame for the passing of time. Tláloc was the patron of the Calendar day Mazātl. In Aztec mythology, Tláloc was the lord of the third sun which was destroyed ...
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1095-4. OCLC 60131674. Harvey, Doug (2012). "How a Feathered God Presided Over a Golden Age of Mexican Art". Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Vol. 33, no. 5. pp. 34– 39.
A representation of the goddess can be found on each side of the 1503 CE Coronation Stone of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, alongside the glyphs for fire and water — traditional symbols of war. Historian Mary Miller even suggests that Tlaltecuhtli may be the face in the center of the famous Aztec Calendar Stone (Piedra del Sol), where she ...
In Aztec mythology, Atlahua, Ahtlahua, Atlahoa, Atlavâ [1] or Atlaua was a water God (the blue version of Tlaloc, the Tlaloc from the South [2]), fisherman and archer. There were said to be at least four ancient Aztec temples at which he was worshiped, the tallest supposedly being over 200 feet tall (61 metres) [citation needed].
She holds a reed staff in her hand and wears garments with a water design. In Aztec religion, Huixtocihuatl [pronunciation?] (or Uixtochihuatl, Uixtociuatl) was a fertility goddess who presided over salt and salt water. The Aztecs considered her to be the older sister of the rain gods, including Tlaloc. [1]