2022年11月29日 · Huitzilopochtli “was born without flesh (nacio sin carne), but only bones,” and remained fleshless for 600 years. After those 600 years had passed, Huitzilopochtli and his brothers began the process of creating the world and its laws. Origin Myth: Son of Coatlicue. The second origin myth for Huitzilopochtli resembled Jesus’ conception.

2022年11月29日 · Huitzilopochtli was the patron god of these people and was regarded as the literal founder of the city. While the Aztec religion regarded Mixcoatl as a god, the 16th-century Spanish historian Bernardino de Sahagun (1499-1590) wrote that “the Chichimecs [the ethnic group inhabiting Tlaxcala] worshipped only one god, called Mixcoatl.”

2022年11月29日 · An excerpt from Tovar Codex (c. 1492-1600). Like the Codex Ramirez, the Tovar Codex provides a description of Aztec history. Ometeotl’s son Huitzilopochtli can be seen on the right edge of the temple scene. The image on the right of the page is a tzompantli, or Aztec skull rack. John Carter Brown Library Public Domain The Five Suns

2023年1月24日 · After he was born, he and his family waited 600 years for his youngest brother, Huitzilopochtli (who was born without flesh), to join them in the process of cosmic construction. Quetzalcoatl and either Huitzilopochtli or Tezcatlipoca (depending upon the myth) were responsible for the creation of the cosmos.

2022年11月29日 · Huitzilopochtli was central to Coatlicue’s story, from her virginal pregnancy to the ensuing battle between her children. In the end, Coatlicue was simply a lonely mother who longed to see her child again. In a strange twist of fate, only the fall of the Aztec Empire would be able to reunite them. The Virgin Birth of Huitzilopochtli

2022年11月29日 · While many of the Aztec gods have traditional parentage, Tlaloc and his wife Chalchiuhtlicue were created either by all four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl (Xipe Totec, Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, and Huitzilopochtli), or by Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli. Tlaloc’s son, Tecciztecatl, would become the moon after following the god ...

2022年11月29日 · According to the Codex Ramirez (a 16th-century Spanish manuscript recording Aztec religious practices) Chalchiuhtlicue was created by Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, Quetzalcoatl, and Huitzilopochtli shortly after the world’s creation. According to this myth, Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue were created simultaneously as husband and wife.

2022年11月29日 · Tezcatlipoca, the “Smoking Mirror,” was a powerful Aztec creator deity represented by an obsidian mirror. Frequently in conflict with his brother Quetzalcoatl, he sacrificed his foot to a sea monster to create the world from its body.

2022年11月29日 · Tonatiuh’s existence as the fifth sun of the Aztecs was brought about by the sacrifice of the god Nanahuatzin. Setting the sun in motion required many more deaths, and his own eventual demise will signal the end of the world.

2022年11月29日 · Mictlantecuhtli was described extremely early in the Aztec creation story. After Ometecuhtli and his wife Omecihuatl bore their four children, nothing important happened for 600 years. Following this hiatus, their children—Xipe Totec, Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, and Huitzilopochtli—began the process of constructing the cosmos.