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List Of Aztec Deities
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. They also come from the Thirteen Heavens. Gods Ahuiateteo The Ahuiateteo are gods of excess and pleasure. * Macuilcozcacuauhtli, the god of gluttony. * Macuilcuetzpalin, one of the members of the Ahuiateteo. * Macuilmalinalli, one of the members of the Ahuiateteo. *Macuiltochtli, the god of drunkenness and pulque. * Macuilxochitl, the god of gambling and music and an aspect of Xochipilli. Stars * Centzonmimixcoa, the 400 gods of the northern stars. ** Cuahuitlicac, one of the members of the Centzonmimixcoa. Cuahuitlicac was Coatlicue's son and Huitzilopochtli's brother like the god Tlacahuepan. Cuahuitlicac warned the unborn Huitzilopochtli that Coatlicue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aztec
The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl, Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (''altepetl''), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec Empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427: Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica or Tenochca; Texcoco (altepetl), Texcoco; and Tlacopan, previously part of the Tepanec empire, whose dominant power was Azcapotzalco (altepetl), Azcapotzalco. Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it is also broadly used to refer to Nahuas, Nahua polities or peoples of central Pre-Columbian Mexico, Mexico in the preh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toltecatl
In Aztec mythology, Tōltēcatl (Nahuatl for "the Toltec" or "the artisan"; ) was one of the , the four hundred gods of pulque Pulque (; nci, metoctli), or octli, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. It is traditional in central Mexico, where it has been produced for millennia. It has the color of milk, a rather viscous co .... {{Mesoamerica-stub Aztec pulque gods Alcohol deities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tlilhua
In Aztec mythology, Tlilhua (Nahuatl for "one that has ink") is one of the Centzontotochtin, the gods of pulque Pulque (; nci, metoctli), or octli, is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey (agave) plant. It is traditional in central Mexico, where it has been produced for millennia. It has the color of milk, a rather viscous co .... Aztec pulque gods Alcohol deities {{mesoamerica-myth-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ometochtli
In Aztec mythology, Ometochtli is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque ('), an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented sap of the ''maguey'' plant. By the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology a collection of beliefs and religious practices had arisen in the context of the manufacture and ritualistic consumption of the beverage, known as the "pulque (or octli) cult" with probable origins in a mountainous region of central Mexico. In Aztec society ''octli'' rituals formed a major component of Aztec religion and observance, and there were numerous local deities and classes of ''sacerdotes'' ("priests") associated with it.Smith 2003, p.88 "Ometochtli" is a calendrical name in Classical Nahuatl, with the literal meaning of "two rabbit". See also * Centzon Totochtin *Mayahuel * Tepoztecatl * Macuil-Tochtli *Pulque *Aztec mythology Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ixtlilton
Ixtlilton ( nah, Ixtlilton ,"ink at the face", from ''ixtli'', "face", "eye", ''tlilli'', "black ink", and ''-ton'', diminutive suffix) in Aztec mythology is a god of medicine and healing and therefore was often alluded to as the brother of Macuilxochitl, the god of well-being or good luck. Ixtlilton was a gentle god, who emanated from an obsidian Obsidian () is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extrusive rock, extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock. Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements s ... mask which brought darkness and peaceful sleep to children in their beds at night. References Aztec gods Health gods {{Mesoamerica-myth-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patecatl
In Aztec mythology, Patecatl is a god of healing and fertility and the discoverer of peyote as well as the "lord of the root of pulque". With Mayahuel, he was the father of the Centzon Totochtin. In the Aztec calendar, Patecatl is the lord of the thirteen days from 1 Monkey to 13 House. The preceding thirteen days are ruled over by Mictlantecuhtli and the following thirteen by Itztlacoliuhqui In Aztec mythology, Itztlacoliuhqui is the god of frost. He also represents matter in its lifeless state. The Nahuatl name ''Itztlacoliuhqui'' is usually translated into English as "curved obsidian blade". J. Richard Andrews contends that this i .... References Aztec gods Aztec pulque gods Fertility gods Health gods Alcohol deities {{Mesoamerica-myth-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
