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Thirteen Heavens: Name Dwellers 1 Ilhuicatl-Meztli; Ilhuicatl-Tlalocan-Meztli; Ilhuicatl-Tlaloc-Meztli; Ilhuicatl-Tlalocan "Sky where the moon moves" Meztli, moon goddess . As lunar phases Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust and illicit affairs, patron of sexual incontinence, adultery, sex, passions, carnality and moral transgressions.
Tlālōcān is also the first level of the upper worlds, or the Aztecs' Thirteen Heavens, that has four compartments according to the mythic cosmographies of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of pre-Columbian central Mexico, noted particularly in Conquest-era accounts of Aztec mythology.
Cañada de la Virgen consists of closely linked architectural complexes. Special note for Complex A or the House of the Thirteen Heavens - critical space for celestial observation - consists of a sunken patio, a pyramidal basement (over 15 m high) and platforms that close to the East, North and South as a whole.
Tlaloc is associated with fertility and agriculture. Tlaloc pierces the clouds' bellies to make them rain in the first layer of the Thirteen Heavens. [4] Tlāloqueh, gods of rain, weather, and mountains. Tlaloc had also been considered the ruler of this motley group. Chalchiuhtlatonal, god of water who is related to the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue.
The cosmology of Aztec religion divides the world into thirteen heavens and nine earthly layers or netherworlds. [6] The first heaven overlaps with the first terrestrial layer, so that heaven and the terrestrial layers meet at the surface of the Earth. Each level is associated with a specific set of deities and astronomical objects.
Multiple Nahuatl sources, notably the Florentine Codex, name the highest level of heaven Ōmeyōcān or "place of duality" (Sahagún specifically terms it "in ōmeyōcān in chiucnāuhnepaniuhcān" or "the place of duality, above the nine-tired heavens)."
Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the Gates of Heaven. Never mind that Martin Luther fired Buy your ...
In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin) [citation needed] are a set of thirteen gods that ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens. [citation needed] They were cyclical, so that the same god recurred every thirteen days.