The name of the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, literally means “Lord of Mictlan”. In Aztec religion and mythology, Mictlan was the lowest and northernmost section of the underworld and was ruled by Mictlantecuhtli along with his wife, Mictecacíhuatl. Although there were also several...
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 St...
Aztecs had unique concepts of death and afterlife. According to Aztec beliefs, dead people dying of natural causes went to the underworld ruled by Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the underworld, and his wife, Mictecacihuati. As per the Aztec beliefs, she watched over the bones of the dead pe...
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...
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...
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of Quetzalcoatl from Tula to the mythical Tlillan Tlapallan, "the land of the black and the red," and his promise to return from the East in the year of his name, Ce Acatl, is but a mythical explanation of the death of the planet, his descent into the West, where the black and ...
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...
One version of the legend related to the hummingbird god Huitzilopochtli compared him to the Sun in the sky. In this version, the stars and the moon were his siblings who were also his rivals. The Sun, Aztecs believed, always chased the moon and the stars and defeated them, just like...
“eagle who rises”) and burned in thequauhxicalli(“the eagle’s vase”). Warriors who died in battle or as sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli were calledquauhteca(“the eagle’s people”). It was believed that after their death the warriors first formed part of thesun’sbrilliant retinue;...