List of Aztec gods and supernatural beings

This is a list of gods and supernatural beings from the Aztec culture, its religion and mythology. Many of these deities are sourced from Codexes (such as the Florentine Codex (Bernardino de Sahagún), the Codex Borgia (Stefano Borgia), and the informants). They are all divided into gods and goddesses, in sections. They also come from the Thirteen Heavens.

Gods

Āhuiatēteoh

The Āhuiyatēteoh are five gods of excess and pleasure. The group made up of youthful solar deities of sensual and esthetic pursuits. who presided over flowers, feasting, singing, dancing, gaming, and painting and who bore the names of the five tonalpohualli (260-day religious divinatory calendar) days assigned to the south, with numerical coefficients of five (the number signifying ‘excess’).

Stars

Medicine

Centzontotochtin

The Centzontōtōchtin are the 400 gods of pulque.

Cinteteo

The Cinteteo are gods of the maizes associated with the Tiānquiztli.

Fertility

Ehēcatōtōntli

The Ehecatotontli are gods of the winds or breezes.

Xiuhtōtōntli

The Xiuhtotontli are gods of fire and alternative manifestations or states of Xiuhtecuhtli.

Underworld

Patterns of War; (1a) Tlaloc, (1b) Xiuhtecuhtli, (2a) Mixcoatl, (2b) Xipe-Totec depicted in the Codex Borgia.

Four Tezcatlipocas

Ballgame

Five Tlaloquê depicted in the Codex Borgia.

Rain

Sacrifice

Earth

Patterns of Merchants; (1a) Huehuecoyotl, (1b) Zacatzontli, (2a) Yacatecuhtli, (2b) Tlacotzontli, (3a) Tlazolteotl, (3b) Tonatiuh depicted in the Codex Borgia.

Art

Travel

Goddesses

Stars

Medicine

Fertility

Underworld

Sacrifice

Earth

Art

Travel

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 "Aztec Gods or Deities". Aztec Calendar.
  3. ↑ "Xiuhtecuhtli". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
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  5. ↑ "The god with the longest name?". Mexicolore.
  6. ↑ "Tezcatlipoca". Mythopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  7. ↑ Willis, Roy G. (1993). World Mythology. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-2701-3.
  8. ↑ "Xipe Totec". Mythopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  9. ↑ "Xipe Totec". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  10. ↑ "Huitzilopochtli | Aztec god". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-10-01.