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Itzcoliuhqui
Itzcoliuhqui
The Twisted Obsidian One, the God of the Curved Obsidian Blade. God of darkness
and destruction. Blinded and cast down from the heavens, Itzcoliuhqui strikes out
randomly at his victims.
Itzpapalotl
Itzpapalotl
Obsidian Butterfly. Beautiful, demonic, armed with the claws of a jaguar. The female
counterpart of Itzcoliuhqui.
Mictlan
Mictlan
Below the world of living men there are nine underworlds, the lowest of which is
Mictlan, the Land of the Dead ruled by Mictlantechupi and his consort
Mictlancihuntl. Souls who win no merit in life come here after death, but they do not
suffer as in the Christian hell. Instead they merely endure a rather drab and colorless
existence before passing again into the world of the living. As a man disappears into
the West, the direction of the dead, the seeds of his rebirth are sown.
Ometeotl Ometeotl
Ometeotl
"God of the Near and Close," "He Who Is at the Center," the god above all, the being
both male and female who created all life and existence. Ometeotl is dualistic,
embodying both male and female, light and dark, positive and negative, yes and no.
Ometoetol occupies Omeyocan, the highest of the Aztecs' thirteen heavens, and the
four heavens immediately below Omeyocan are a mystery about which no one knows
very much. Below the five highest heavens is a region of strife and tempest, where
Ometeotl breaks into his many facets or aspects.
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent. The Precious Twin who lifts the sun out of darkness, god of
the winds and the breath of life, First Lord of the Toltecs. Lawgiver, civilizer, creator
of the calendar. Demons tempted Quetzalcoatl constantly to commit murder and
human sacrifice, but his love was too great for him to succumb. To atone for great
sins, Quetzcoatl threw himself on a funeral pyre, where his ashes rose to the heavens
as a flock of birds carrying his heart to the star Venus. A frieze in the palace at
Teotihuacan shows his first entry into the world in the shape of a chrysalis, from
which he struggles to emerge as a butterfly, the symbol of perfection. Quetzalcoatl is
by far the most compassionate of the Aztec gods – he only demands one human
sacrifice a year. Often considered synonymous with Hui Huitzilopotchli
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Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca
The Prince of This World, the Mirror that Smokes, the One Always at the Shoulder,
the Shadow. A trickster, revered particularly by soldiers and magicians. The name