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The Xiuhtotontli are gods of fire and alternative manifestations or states of Xiuhtecuhtli. Xiuhiztacuhqui, god of the white fire. Xiuhtlatlauhqui, god of the red fire. Xiuhcozauhqui, god of the yellow fire. Xiuhxoxoauhqui, god of the blue fire. Xiuhtecuhtli, related god of fire and time. His face is painted with black and red pigment. [3]
Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. [1] The Aztecs were Nahuatl -speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures.
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Primeros Memoriales, a manuscript written by Bernardino de Sahagún before his Florentine Codex, contains a description of Huixtocihuatl paired with an illustration. [5] The Aztecs believed that the essence of a deity could be captured by a human impersonator, or ixiptla, of the god.
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The Aztecs and figures from Aztec mythology feature in Western culture. [186] The name of Quetzalcoatl, a feathered serpent god, has been used for a genus of pterosaurs, Quetzalcoatlus, a large flying reptile with a wingspan of as much as 11 meters (36 ft). [187] Quetzalcoatl has appeared as a character in many books, films and video games.
In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈtepeːˈjoːlːoːt͡ɬ]; "heart of the mountains"; also Tepeyollotli) was the god of darkened caves, earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the Night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the Sun.
In Aztec mythology, the Centzonhuītznāhua (Nahuatl pronunciation: [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwa] or, the plural, Centzon Huītznāuhtin, [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwtin]) were the gods of the southern stars. These "four hundred" (i.e. innumerable) brothers appear in some versions of the origin story of Huītzilōpōchtli, the god of the sun and war.