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God name "Nahuti Ollin Tonatiuh" | Aztec | ("Movement of the Sun") was the Sun god. The Aztec people considered him the leader of Tollan, their heaven. He was also known as the fifth Sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the Sun that took over when the fourth Sun was expelled from the sky. Aztec |
God name "Nahuti Ollin/ Ollin/ Ollintonatiuh" | Aztec | A creator god |
Deities name "Nanahuati (rumor)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. In cosmogony, when on the fifth day of creation the gods sat in judgment to elect the new Sun god, Nanahuatl and TECCIZTECATL cremated themselves in the sacred fire. The heart of Nanahuatl ascended to become the new Sun and that of Tecciztecatl became the moon. Tradition suggests that Nanahuatl is diseased and impoverished but of great courage, while Tecciztecatl is wealthy and a coward. In an alternative tradition, in which Nanahuatl is the son of QUETZALCOATL and Tecciztecatl is the son of TLALOC, both deities are hurled into the fire by their fathers. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed themselves so that mankind might be engendered from their remains. Also Nanahuatzin.... |
God name "Nanahuatl" | Aztec | Creator god Aztec |
God name "Nanautzin" | Aztec | God of disease Aztec |
God name "Nappatecuhtli" | Aztec | Minor god of mat makers. Aztec |
Deities name "Nappatecuhtli (four-times lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of mat-makers. One of the group of deities belonging to the TLALOC complex generally åśśociated with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
God name "Nextepehua" | Aztec | Scatterer of ashes. Minor chthonic underworld god. Aztec |
Deities name "Nextepehua (ash-scatterer)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the group of deities belonging to the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Ocelotl" | Aztec | the Sun god but then a first of the five world ages - they last for 2028 heavenly years & each heavenly year = 52 earth years |
God name "Ocelotl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the first of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the earth and presided over by TEZCATLIPOCA. According to tradition, the age was populated by a race of giants and it ended in a catalclysmic destruction caused by huge and ferocious jaguars which devoured them. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Ocelotonatiuh; Yoaltonatiuh; Tlalchitonatiuh.... |
God name "Omacati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of feasting and revelry. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. Also (2)Acatl.... |
Deity name "Omacatl" | Aztec | deity of banqueting, invitations to feasts, feasting and revelery. Aztec |
God name "Omacatl/ Acatl" | Aztec | A minor god of feasting & revelery |
God name "Ome" | Tochtli | Aztec a fertility god that was slaughtered and then resurrected by Tezcatlipoca |
Deities name "Ome Tochtii" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fertility god. Slaughtered and then revived by TEZCATLIPOCA. Head of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex of fertility deities who personified the maguey plant and the intoxicating drink brewed from it, pulque or octli. Also (2) Tochtli.... |
God name "Ome Tochtli" | Aztec | A god of drunkenness. He is the leader of Centzon Totchtli, the four hundred rabbit gods of drunkenness. Aztec |
God name "Ometecuhtli" | Aztec | A dual god, male and female, who was the creator of Cemanahuatl. Ometeotl's male aspect is Ometecutli, the female aspect is Omecihuatl. S / he dwelled in and ruled over Omeyocan, "Two Place", home of the gods. Aztec |