Mictlampa
Mictlampa Pronunciation : (Mick-LAMP-ah) Variations: Lord of the Mictlampa, The Taker of Life Mictlampa (“The North Side”) was a vampiric god to the ancient Aztec…
Category: Aztec Mythology
Nanautzin
Nanautzin (Nanahuatzin) is the Aztec god of self-sacrifice, courage and bravery, and light. Nanautzin was considered the father of the Sun. Long ago, when the…
Yacatecutli
Yacatecutli (lord of travellers, he who leads) In Aztec mythology, god of merchants, whose symbol was a staff, often sprinkled with blood by his worshippers.…
Xiuhtecuhtli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…