#aztec deities

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Different cultures deities ✨

I really did a number on the Egyptian deity art and mixed up a bunch of spots. As well the drawing of the Mayan god Cizin was actually an interpretation of a statue of Chaac (drawn in the wrong box) so I just went with it 😥😵‍💫

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List of the Aztec Gods

This isn’t a complete list, but contains most of the Aztec gods and what they are known for.

Ometecuhtli/Omecihuatl - dual god/goddess who created themselves at the beginning of time as one being, then split into male and female in order to reproduce all creation. These are the supreme gods. 

Xiuhtecuhtli (Lord of Fire) - god of fire, daytime, and volcanoes; father of the gods 

Teleoinan - goddess of the Earth, motherhood, childbirth, fertility, and vegetation. Counterpart of Gaia; mother of the gods. Honored with blood-sacrifices in the fields. 

Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird of the South) - god of war, human sacrifice, and the sun; father of the Aztecs and the one who led them to conquer Mexico from the Otomi.

Tezcatlipoca (The Smoking Mirror) - god of magick, the night sky, ancestral memory, time, fate, and change through conflict 

Quetzalcoatl (The Feathered-Serpent) - dragon-god of winds, rain, knowledge, wisdom, spirituality, science, and self-reflection 

Coatlicue (She of the Serpent Skirt) - serpent-goddess of the earth, fertility, motherhood, and rebirth; represents both the life-generating and devouring sides of nature (guardian of mothers who die in childbirth). 

Itzpapalotl (The Obsidian Butterfly) - goddess of revenge and blood-shed; leader of the Tzitzimimeh, the star-demons. 

Nanauatzin - god who sacrificed himself in fire so he could become the sun 

Tonatiuh (The Turquoise Lord) - god of the sun; Nanauatzin’s name after becoming the sun god. Had required the nourishment of human blood to provide warmth to the land.

Xochiquetzal (Precious Feather Flower) - goddess of beauty, sex, romantic love, pleasure, fertility, motherhood, and traditional women’s handicrafts such as weaving. She is also heavily associated with the moon and the various lunar phases. 

Huhuecoyotl (Very Old Coyote) - coyote-god of merriment, art, music, wisdom, mischief, and virility 

Tlaloc (He Who makes Things Sprout) - god of rain, thunder storms, and vegetation. Brings rains to the land but is wrathful when angered, sending floods or causing droughts to destroy crops. 

Mictlantecuhtli - god of death and the Underworld (Mictlan) 

Mictecacihuatl - goddess of death and the Underworld; wife of Mictlantecuhtli 

Xolotl - dog-headed god of fire, lightning, misfortunes, sickness, deformities, monsters, and twins; psychopomp for the dead. His job was also to protect the sun from the dangers of the Underworld.

Chalchiuhtlicue (She Who Wears a Jade Skirt) - goddess of water, navigation, and childbirth 

Xipe Totec (Our Lord the Flayed One) - god of vegetation, agriculture, sacrifice, and the skinning of humans. Brought vegetation to the land once appeased with the flayed skins of sacrificial victims. His festival is called Tlacaxipehualiztli - which translates as “flaying of men”. 

Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent) - god of hunting and the stars. He was usually depicted wearing a cloak of human skin; his own exposed skin was covered in red and white stripes.

Xōchipilli (Prince of Flowers) - god of summer, flowers, art, dancing, singing, pleasure, sex, romantic love, creativity, gambling, and feasts. Offered sacrifices of virgins in his ceremonies. 

Tlazolteotl (She Who Eats Away Impurities) - goddess of purification, luck, and sorcery. Wrongly interpreted as a goddess of lust, filth, and sexual misdeeds. She consumes the impurities of humans and transmutes them into the White Flame of purity and illumination. Can cause seduction, but only through her role of charm magick. 

Tecciztecatl - god who became the moon 

Metztli - goddess of the moon, the night, and agriculture 

Coyolxāuhqui - goddess who was butchered to pieces by Huitzilopochtli when she tried to kill their mother, Coatlicue. She has association with the moon.

Ixtlilton - god of healing, medicine, and dancing 

Macuilxóchitl - god who is part of the Centzon Totochtin, the 400 rabbits who are all gods of drunkenness 

Tepeyollotl (Jaguar of Night) – jaguar-god of wild animals, darkened caves, echoes, and earthquakes 

Mayahuel - goddess of the agave plant and fertility 

Patecatl - god of healing; patron god of doctors 

Ixtlilton - god of medicine and healing 

Cinteotl - god of maize 

Cipactonal - god of astrology and calendars, associated with daytime 

Oxomo - goddess of astrology and calendars, associated with nighttime 

Cihuacoatl - goddess of childbirth, motherhood, and fertility. Noble-women who died in childbirth were taken to her realm. This goddess was sometimes portrayed as a skull-faced warrior due to the harshness of childbirth.

Toci - goddess of healing 

Temazcalteci - goddess of steam baths 

Chantico - goddess of the family hearth and volcanoes 

Piltzintecuhtli - god of the rising sun, healing, and visions 

Citlalicue - creator-goddess of stars 

Citlalatonac - creator-god of stars (husband of Citlalicue) 

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - god of Venus 

Chalchiutotolin - turkey-god of purification, disease, and release of guilt

Itztlacoliuhqui (All Is Bent By Coldness) - god of ice, coldness, winter, punishment, and misery. He is also the god of objectivity and impartial justice. 

Malinalxochitl - goddess of sorcery, snakes, scorpions, and insects of the desert. Is known to cause horrible hallucinations to humans, eat their flesh, and make them get bit by venomous snakes. 

Macuiltotec - god of weaponry and warfare 

Atlatoman - goddess of physical deformities and sores. She was also thought to be the cause of such ailments. 

Atlaua - god of water; protector of archers and fishermen. The Aztecs often prayed to him when there were deaths in water. 

Opochtli - god of fishing and bird-catchers; discoverer of harpoons and the net 

Huixtocihuatl - goddess of salt and patron of cultivated foods and people in the salt trade 

Atlacoya - goddess of droughts 

Yacatecuhtli - god of commerce and travelers, especially business travelers 

Zacatzontli - god of roads

Nappatecutli - god of mat-making

Ilamatecuthli - goddess of weaving

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Tezcatlipoca 31-05-20 On various pantheons of the mesoamerican regions, Tezcatlipoca is an omnipotent and omnipresent god, lord of the earth and heaven, he was also known to be a deity of providence, sorcery, invisibility and darkness. For the mexicas, he and his brother Quetzalcoatl represented duality and antagony; black and white, day and night. An ability these two shared is the power to transform into their nahual (a spirit animal of sorts), Tezcatlipoca's being a jaguar (sometimes black) Tezcatlipoca means "Smoky Mirror" in nahuatl, that being one of the objects he possesed, capable of showing man the deepest and darkest desires of their hearts, letting the worst side of them loose. He also used it to watch and judge people, sometimes even kill them. He also had the ability to give and take any material thing at will. It is often represented without one of his feet, which he had to sacrifice in the battle with Cipatli to create the world. Big celebrations were held in his honour! All of them ending in a human sacrifice. All of these were made to try to plead mercy from this ruthless god. One of it's most famous representation is a little black turqouise skull with a blue stripe located in the British Museum.

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Three anti-proselytizing placards with Aztec deities Huitzilopochtli and Mictlantecuhtli

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Quetzalcoatl 19-04-20 One of the most important gods on many mesoamerican pantheons. Known by the mayans as Kukulkan and by the aztecs as Quetzalcoatl; which means "Feathered serpent". It's the god of the wind, knowledge, art, crafts, sunrise and the planet Venus. There's a vast list of myths about him. To name a few, there's the myth about how he and his brother Tezcatlipoca fought a sea beast named Cipactli to create the mainland. And how soon after a rivalry between the two sparked. The time Qutzalcoalt was the second sun, which was destroyed by a hurricane that transformed ancient humans in monkeys. Or how he went down to Mictlan (aztec underworld) to grab sacred and ancient bones alongside corn dough to craft modern human beings. He also brought corn to humans, which was and still a very important part of our diet. Quetzalcoatl is also believed to have come down to Earth as a mortal to rule over the city of Tula, he was such a great leader. Until his jealous brother Tezcatlipoca got him drunk, and Quetzalcoatl made very horrible things! Ashames he exiled himself to the sea and told his people that he'd come back. Fun fact: The time Quetzalcoatl was supposed to come back, coincided with 1519, year that the Spanish arrived on Mexico.

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The Legend of the Sun and the Moon (The Legend of the Fifth Sun)

In Aztec mythology, after the destruction of the fourth world, the gods grouped together at Teotihuacan so that they could make the fifth sun. In order to do so they needed a sacrifice. The beautiful and rich god Tecciztecatl offered himself as the sacrifice to make the new sun. However, when he went near the sacrificial fire he became afraid. Many times he tried to jump in the fire but each time he drew back in cowardice. The poor and humble god Nanahuatzin then offered himself and jumped in the fire of sacrifice. From the fire arose the sun. When Tecciztecatl saw that the gods were in awe of the sun he felt embarrassed and then jumped in. From the fire arose a second sun. Because there were two suns the world became to hot and the gods were afraid that the world would burn. In order to solve this problem they threw a rabbit in the face of Tecciztecatl to dim his brightness and he became the moon. That is why when you look up at the moon you can see the shape of a rabbit.

Art: Javier Vizcaíno

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Mictecacihuatl By Robert Valdez Mictecacihuatl is the Aztec queen of the dead and the underworld called Mictlan. She rules with her husband Mictlantecuhtli.