Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll Coatlicue (/kwɑːtˈliːkweɪ/; Classical Nahuatl: cōātl īcue, Nahuatl pronunciation: (About this soundlisten), “skirt of snakes”), also known as Teteoh innan (Classical Nahuatl: tēteoh īnnān, pronounced , “mother of the gods”), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god...
Aztec Gods: Chimalma
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll Chimalman or Chīmalmā is a goddess in Aztec mythology, and was considered by the Aztecs to be the mother of the Toltec god Quetzalcoatl. Her name means “shield-hand.” Several oral traditions consider that Chimalman is that she was a spirit which accompanied the Azteca from the...
Aztec Gods: Xochitlicue
Vote for Xochitlicue God on RELIGER Gods Poll Xochitlicue – goddess of fertility, life, death and rebirth In Aztec meethologie, Xochitlicue is a goddess o growthiness, patroness o life an daith, rebirth guide, Coatlicue an Chimalma are her sisters. Wi Ehecatl, she is the mither o the twin gods Xochiquetzal an Xochipilli. This article...
Aztec Gods: Itzpapalotl
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll In Aztec religion, Ītzpāpālōtl (“Obsidian Butterfly”) was a striking skeletal warrior goddess who ruled over the paradise world of Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created. She is the mother of Mixcoatl and is particularly...
Aztec Gods: Toci
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll Toci (/ˈtoʊsi/; Classical Nahuatl: tocih, pronounced , “our grandmother”) is a deity figuring prominently in the religion and mythology of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilization of Mesoamerica. In Aztec mythology, she is seen as an aspect of the mother goddess Coatlicue and is thus labeled “mother of...
Aztec Gods: Tlazolteotl
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll In Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl (or Tlaçolteotl, Classical Nahuatl: Tlahzolteōtl, pronounced ) is a deity of vice, purification, steam baths, lust, filth, and a patroness of adulterers. She is known by three names, Tlahēlcuāni (“she who eats tlahēlli or filthy excrescence ”) and Tlazōlmiquiztli (“the death caused...
Aztec Gods: Tepeyollotl
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl Nahuatl pronunciation: (“heart of the mountains”; also Tepeyollotli) was the god of earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the Night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the sun. In the calendar, Tepeyollotl...
Aztec Gods: Lords of the Day
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire and time Tlaltecuhtli, old god of earth (changed in the landscape and atmosphere) Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism Tonatiuh, god of the Sun Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds Mictlantecuhtli, god of the...
Aztec Gods: Tlaltecuhtli
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll Tlaltecuhtli (Nahuatl pronunciation: ) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referred to as the “earth monster,” Tlaltecuhtli’s dismembered body was the basis for the world in the Aztec creation story of the fifth and final cosmos. In carvings, Tlaltecuhtli...
Aztec Gods: Tonatiuh
Vote for this God on RELIGER Gods Poll In Mesoamerican culture, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl: Ōllin Tōnatiuh “Movement of the Sun”) was as an Aztec sun deity of the day sky and ruled the cardinal direction of east. According to Aztec Mythology, Tonatiuh was known as “The Fifth Sun” and was given a calendar...