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List of Gods : "King Aztec" - 3 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "CIPACTLI (great earth mother)"	Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico	Primordial goddess. Not strictly a goddess, but significant enough in Aztec cosmogony to be included here. According to tradition she was created in the form of a huge alligator-like monster by the underworld deities MICTLANTECUHLTI and MICTECACIHUATL. She may equate with TLALTECUHTLI, the toad-like earth monster torn apart to form heaven and earth. According to one tradition she emerged from the primordial waters and engaged in a fierce struggle with the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA during which he tore off her lower jaw to prevent her sinking back into the depths and she bit off his right foot. The mountains are said to be the scaly ridges of her skin....
King name "Huitzilopochtli"	Aztec	The Divine leader who rescued an ancestral people from his devastated island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean, Aztlan. Arriving in the Valley of Mexico, they built a new capital to commemorate their lost city, when Tenochtitlan was constructed on a rocky island at the center of a man-made lake. Aztec
King name "Ueuecoyotl"	Aztec	old coyote, a renowned trickster fond of promiscuity, wild parties and jolly bonking. Aztec

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