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Angered, Tezcatlipoca turned into a jaguar and destroyed the world. Quetzalcoatl, then, replaced him as the sun and started the second age of the world, and it became populated again. [24] Tezcatlipoca overthrew Quetzalcoatl, forcing him to send a great wind that devastated the world, and the people who survived were turned into monkeys.
Tezcatlipoca is a name used by two distinct fictional characters appearing as supervillains in DC Comics publications and related media.. The first Tezcatlipoca is a character based on the eponymous Aztec mythological figure, [1] a powerful deity of conflict, nighttime and sorcery, who commonly appears as a recurring adversary of the superheroes Wonder Woman and Aztek.
The most important part of the Toxcatl ritual was the sacrifice of a young man who had been impersonating Tezcatlipoca since the last Toxcatl festival, and the selection of a new man to take that role in the year to come. The youth chosen to be the ixiptlatli [3] (impersonator) of Tezcatlipoca was normally a war captive. [4]
Tepeyollotl is a variant of Tezcatlipoca and is associated with mountains. Itzcaque, god who represents Tezcatlipoca in his capacity of starting wars for his own amusement. Chālchiuhtōtolin, god of illness, disorder, and chaos. Chalchiuhtotolin absolves humans of guilt and overcomes their fate. (S)he is also a manifestation of Tēzcatlīpōca.
Red Tezcatlipoca is Xipe-Totec or Camaxtle, and his representations first appeared at Xollalpan, near Teotihuacan, and at Texcoco, in connection with the Mazapan culture—that is, during the post-Classic Toltec phase (9th–12th century ad). The Aztecs adopted his cult during the reign of Axayacatl (1469–81).
In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtotolin (/ tʃ ɑː l tʃ iː u t oʊ ˈ t oʊ l i n /; Nahuatl for "Jade Turkey") was a god of disease and plague. Chalchihuihtotolin, the Jewelled Fowl, Tezcatlipoca's nahual. Chalchihuihtotolin is a symbol of powerful sorcery.
The rest of the gods present: Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, Nochpalliicue, Yapallicue and Xochiquetzal sacrifice themselves in Teotihuacan to make the Sun move across the sky, starting the contemporary era. [7] Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is also viewed as one of the four gods who kept the sky up and was associated with the cardinal direction East. [8]
In Aztec codices, the myth goes that Tezcatlipoca changed his name to Mixcoatl in the second year after the flood and makes fire from two pieces of flint. Which would explain the reason why, in the Sun Stone, the Tecpatl is carrying the glyph of Tezcatlipoca. The Tecpatl, linked to the origin of the fire, is also identified as a symbol of the ...