Ometecuhtli

Ometecuhtli (Ometecutli) (the dual lord, lord of duality) In Aztec mythology, supreme being, who was outside of space and time and was the source of all life. He was the husband of Omechihuath, who gave birth to an obsidian knife, which she threw down to earth. From it 1,600 heroes were born, the first inhabitants of the earth. C. A. Burland in The Gods of Mexico (1967) writes that the Mexicans “were quite sure that in everything there was a unity of opposing factors, of male and female, of light and dark, of movement and stillness, of order and disorder. This opposition and duality was an essential of everything, and they felt that it was through this principle that life came into being. Hence, this god was a revelation of something very deep but so unknowable that he was the only god with no material temple.”

SEE ALSO:

• Aztec Mythology
• Meso American Mythology

SOURCE:

Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante & James R. Dow-Copyright © 2009 by Anthony S. Mercatante