In the religion of the Aztec Empire, Xolotl was a god of fire, lightning, deformities, and death. He was the dark twin of Quetzalcoatl, responsible for guiding the Sun through Mictlán, the Underworld. He's also associated with the Aztec creation legend of humans, helping Quetzalcoatl ...
Mayahuel is the goddess of the maguey plant and of fertility. Protector of mature wombs that turn into life. Mictlancihuatl Mictlancihuatl, Lady of the land of the Death, wife of the Death God Mictlantecuhtli. Mictlantecuhtli Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of Mictlan, the Land of the Death. Pate...
The word "Coatlicue" is Nahuatl for "the one with the skirt of serpents". She is referred to by the epithets "Mother Goddess of the Earth who gives birth to all celestial things", "Goddess of Fire and Fertility", "Goddess of Life, Death and Rebirth" and "Mother of the Southern Sta...
Rain God of fertile heavenly watersThe Ruler of Tlalocan, the Fourth Level of Heaven, his domain is a water-filled paradise of lush green plants, from which he dispenses rain, lightning and other useful goodies. But with the Aztecs there was always a price: His priests killed and ate ...
In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec ("our lord the flayed one") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, the west, disease, spring, goldsmiths and the seasons. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the maize seed losing the outer layer of the seed before germina...
Citlalicue (alsoCitlalinicue),Her Skirt is Stars, is also known asIlamatecuhtli. She is a creator goddess, goddess of the stars and the Milky Way, earth, death and darkness. With her husbandCitlalatonacshe created the stars. Citlalicue and Citlalatonac are sometimes associated with the fir...
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The Aztecs believed that the sun god Huitzilopochtli was in an eternal war against darkness and evil. In Mythic Americas’ lore, the Aztec fascination with death goes beyond sacrifices and extends to a thorough immersion in death magics. Powerful Aztec priests and wizards regularly brought those...
The beliefs of the Aztecs concerning the other world and life after death showed the same syncretism. The old paradise of the rain god Tlaloc, depicted in the Teotihuacán frescoes, opened its gardens to those who died by drowning, lightning, or as a result of leprosy, dropsy, gout, or lu...
All the other dead went down to Mictlan, under the northern deserts, the abode of Mictlantecuhtli, the skeleton-masked god of death. There they traveled for four years until they arrived at the ninth hell, where they disappeared altogether. Offerings were made to the dead 80 days after ...