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Cipactonal
Cipactonal is a primordial figure in Nahua religious tradition, commonly associated with Oxomoco, his female counterpart. He appears in several early colonial accounts as one of the first human or semi-divine beings, an …
Ometecuhtli
Ometecuhtli is a creator figure in Nahua religious thought, especially in accounts associated with the Aztec or Mexica world. His name is usually translated as “Lord Two” or “Two Lord.” He is commonly presented as the ma…
Civatateo
Civatateo is a variant spelling of cihuateteo, the Nahuatl name commonly used for the spirits or deified dead of women who died in childbirth in central Mexican religious tradition. The name is often translated as “divin…
Coatlicue
Coatlicue is a major earth and mother deity in Mexica, often called Aztec, religious tradition. Her name is commonly translated as “She of the Serpent Skirt,” referring to the garment of intertwined snakes associated wit…
Cochimetl
Cochimetl is a name associated in some modern reference works with an Aztec or Nahua deity of sleep. The figure is obscure, however, and the surviving evidence is much less substantial than it is for better-documented de…
Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui is a major figure in Mexica, or Aztec, mythology, best known as the leader of the Centzon Huitznahua and the enemy of the newborn god Huitzilopochtli. In the central myth associated with her, she leads an at…
Eagle Warrior
Eagle Warrior is the common English name for a member of an elite military order of the Mexica, often called the Aztecs, who ruled a powerful state in central Mexico before the Spanish conquest. The term does not usually…
Cuaxolotl
Cuaxolotl is a very obscure name associated in some modern reference works with Aztec or broader Nahua mythology. The evidence for Cuaxolotl is limited, and the figure does not possess the clearly documented mythology of…
Tepoztecatl
Tepoztecatl was a Nahua deity associated with pulque, the fermented drink made from the sap of the maguey plant. He was especially connected with Tepoztlan, a sacred centre in the modern Mexican state of Morelos, where a…
Ehecatl
Ehecatl is the Nahuatl word for wind and the name of a major wind deity in the religious traditions of central Mexico. In Aztec, or Mexica, religion, Ehecatl was commonly understood as a manifestation or aspect of Quetza…
Macuilxochitl
Macuilxochitl, whose name means “Five Flower” in Classical Nahuatl, is a deity associated with music, dance, flowers, games, pleasure and forms of cultivated enjoyment in central Mexican religious tradition. He belongs t…