Month: November 2017

Xiuhtecuhtli (Xiuhtecutli) In Aztec mythology, fire god who governed the fifth cardinal point, the center. He was thus worshipped as the center of all things…

Xilonen In Aztec mythology, goddess of the growing corn, whose festival, Uei Tecuilhuitl (22 June), was celebrated with corn tortillas wrapped around pieces of spiced…

Vitzilopuchtl (sorcerer) In Aztec mythology, a war god who could change himself into any shape. According to various Spanish accounts, Vitzilopuchtl was originally a sorcerer…

Uixtocihuatl In Aztec mythology, salt goddess whose festival, Tecuilhuitontli, was held on 2 June. A woman was sacrificed in her honour at the pyramid of…

Ueuecoyotl (the old, old coyote) In Aztec mythology, god associated with sex, useless expenditure on ornament, and unexpected pleasures—all three condemned by the puritanical Aztecs.…

Tonatiuh In Aztec mythology, a sun god, fourth in a series of sun gods. Tonatiuh gave strength to warriors, receiving them along with women who…

Tonacatecutli (Tonacateotle) (lord of our existence) is in Aztec mythology, consort of Tonacacihuatl, with whom he lived in the ninth, or highest, heaven. They had…

Toci (Tozi, Temazcalteci) (our grandmother) In Aztec mythology, goddess and one aspect of Tlalzolteotl. Fray Diego Durán, in his Book of the Gods and Rites…

Paynal (Paynalton) (he who hastens) is in an Aztec rite, the name given to the man who played the part of the war god Huitzilopochtli.…

Opochtli (the left-handed) In Aztec mythology, god of fishing and bird snaring, who invented the fishing rod and harpoon. Opochtli was portrayed as a naked…