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Aztec mythological creatures of Aztec mythology. Pages in category "Aztec legendary creatures" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
This is a list of gods and supernatural beings from the Aztec culture, its religion and mythology. Many of these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants). They are all divided into gods and goddesses, in sections.
Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. [1] ... (the legendary origin of all ... Legendary creature. Type ...
In Aztec mythology the god Tezcatlipoca was the protector of nagualism, because his tonal was the jaguar and he governed the distribution of wealth. In modern rural Mexico, nagual is sometimes synonymous with brujo ("wizard"); one who is able to shapeshift into an animal at night (normally into a dog , owl , bat , wolf or turkey ), drink blood ...
The ahuizotl (from the Classical Nahuatl: āhuitzotl for "spiny aquatic thing", a.k.a. "water dog") is a legendary creature in Aztec mythology. [2] It is said to lure people to their deaths. [3] The creature was taken as an emblem by the ruler of the same name, and was said to be a "friend of the rain gods". [4]
An Aztec sculpture of Xiuhcoatl from Texcoco, now in the British Museum [1]. In Aztec religion, Xiuhcōātl [ʃiʍˈkoːaːt͡ɬ] was a mythological serpent, regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec fire deity sometimes represented as an atlatl or a weapon wielded by Huitzilopochtli.
This category and its subcategories contain articles relating to the belief systems of the Aztec/Nahua cultures of the Postclassic period in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, incorporating aspects such as mythology, religion, ritualised ceremonies and observances.
Always hungry, thousands of mouths (Spanish, Aztec) Dragon – serpentine, reptilian traits (worldwide) Dungavenhooter – a crocodile creature with no mouth and huge nostrils using its tail to pound victims into a vapor, which it inhales for through its nose; Knucker – sea serpent like dragon; Kurma