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Macuilcuetzpalin
Macuilcuetzpalin is a calendrical figure in Nahua, commonly called Aztec, religious tradition. The name is usually translated as “Five Lizard”: macuil means “five,” while cuetzpalin refers to a lizard or similar small re…
Macuiltochtli
Macuiltochtli, whose Nahuatl name means “Five Rabbit,” is a figure associated with drunkenness, pulque and the wider religious symbolism of excess in Aztec and other Nahua traditions. He is commonly connected with the Ce…
Macuilcozcacuahtli
Macuilcozcacuahtli is a little-known figure associated with Aztec and wider Nahua religious tradition. His name is usually translated as “Five Vulture” or “Five [the] Vulture,” from macuil, “five,” and cozcacuahtli, a Na…
Huehueteotl
Huehueteotl is the Nahuatl “Old God,” a venerable fire deity associated with the religious traditions of central Mexico, especially those of the Mexica, often called the Aztecs. He is usually represented as an elderly, w…
Huitzilopochtli
Huitzilopochtli was a major deity of the Mexica, the Nahua-speaking people who founded and ruled the city-state of Tenochtitlan in central Mexico. He was associated with warfare, the sun, rulership, sacrifice and the Mex…
Huixtocihuatl
Huixtocihuatl—also written Uixtocihuatl, Uixtociuatl and in other spelling variants—was a goddess associated with salt in Mexica, often called Aztec, religious tradition. Her name is commonly translated as “Salt Woman,” …
Ilamatecuhtli
Ilamatecuhtli is an aged female deity in the religious traditions of central Mexico, especially those associated with the Mexica, often called the Aztecs. Her name is usually translated as “Old Woman” or “Old Lady,” alth…
Itztli
Itztli is a figure associated with obsidian, cutting blades and sacrificial violence in Aztec, or Mexica, religious tradition. The Nahuatl word itztli primarily means “obsidian,” a volcanic glass widely used in Mesoameri…
Itzpapalotl
Itzpapalotl is a powerful female deity in the religious traditions of Nahua-speaking peoples, especially the Mexica, often known in English as the Aztecs. Her Nahuatl name is commonly translated as “Obsidian Butterfly.” …
Itztlacoliuhqui
Itztlacoliuhqui is a complex figure in Aztec and wider Nahua religious thought, associated with frost, cold, rigidity, punishment and the dangerous power of the obsidian blade. His name is also connected with a covered o…
Ixtlilton
Ixtlilton was a deity of the Nahua peoples of central Mexico, especially associated with health, healing, childhood, music, dancing and joyful recreation. He is commonly described as an Aztec god because he appears in so…