Godchecker guide to Nanautzin (also known as Nana), the Aztec God/dess of Illness and Disease from Aztec mythology. God (or occasionally Goddess) of Humble Bravery
Coatlicue was the Aztec goddess who was the mother of Aztec god of sun and war, Huitzilopochtli. In Aztec mythology, she also gave birth to the moon and stars. Chimalma, on the other hand, was the Aztec goddess who was the mother of Quetzacoatl, the god of knowledge, arts, mercha...
According to Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec or ''the Flayed One'' was said to have initially removed his own skins as a means to both feed his human worshippers, and cure them of disease. This grotesque bit of sacrifice highlights Xipe Totec's dual nature as both a god of spring and ren...
Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan (also transcribed Teteo Inan) ("The Mother of Gods"), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci, ("Our Grandmother"), and Cihuacoatl, ("The Lady of ...
The gods were alarmed about what happened and sought topunish Itzpapalotlby sending Chalchiuhtotolin, the god of disease and plague. However, Itzpapalotl’s power was stronger, and she was able to defeat him. Chalchiuhtotolin pled for his life to be spared, but Itzpapalotl still considered...
world. They are mirrored by Ometecuhtli and his female counterpart Omecihuatl, the givers of light. Mictlantecuhtli’s task was to divide the dead into those who had died ‘normal’ deaths (old age, disease); ‘heroic’ deaths (in battle, childbirth); and those considered ‘unheroic’...
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...
battle or an Aztec woman in childbirth, those were also good, honorable deaths. People who died as a sacrifice, as a warrior or in childbirth went to a paradise to be with the gods after death. In contrast, a person who died of disease went to the lowest level of the underworld, ...
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Although the medicine was practiced by men and women, it seems that only women could take care of deliveries. Medicine was closely linked to magic, but the failure to attribute the scientifically correct cause to each disease did not mean that the appropriate remedy was not applied. ...