| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deity name "Vitzilipuztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican | Aspect of HUITZILPOCHTLI. Invoked twice a year, in May and December, during an agrarian festival. Virginal female worshipers created an image of the deity from dough consisting of maize flour, beet seed and honey. The image was given eyes and teeth using pieces of colored glåśś and whole maize seeds and was paraded, before being broken into pieces and eaten as a form of sacrament.... |
| Goddess name "Xilonen" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor vegetation goddess. An aspect of the maize goddess Chicomecoatl, personifying the young maize plant.... |
| God name "Xiuhtecuhtli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mex ico | Astral god. The ruler of the first or lowest of the thir teen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest, Tlalticpac (on the earth).... |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal" | Aztec / classi cal Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of fertility and childbirth. The mother of the demigoddess (unnamed) whose consort was Piltz intecuhtli and who engendered the first mortals Oxomoco and CIPACTONAL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. A popular deity among Aztec women, the goddess is invoked particularly to make a marriage fruitful. The bride plaits her hair and coils it around, leaving two plumes representing the feathers of the Quetzal which is sacred to Xochiquetzal. Pottery figurines are adorned with plumes of feathers. Worshiped at various sites, including Tula (Hidalgo). Also recognized as the patron goddess of weavers.... |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal-Ichpuchtli (maiden)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. Depicted as a youthful deity åśśociated with sexual love, flowers and pleasure.... |
| God name "Xolotl (monster)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Monstrous deity. He performed the role of executioner when the gods sacrificed themselves to create mankind. He then sacrificed himself. In alternative tradition he tried to evade his own fate, but was himself executed by EHECATL-QUETZALCOATL. Also one of a pair of twins in the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex, regarded as patron of the ball game.... |
| Deity name "Xolotl Naaiahuatl (rumour)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Monstrous deity. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex, described as a twin of XOLOTL and co-patron of ball games.... |
| God name "YAW (enemy)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Omnipotent god. A universal and generally malevolent deity. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZ CATLIPOCA complex.... |
| God name "Yacacoliuhqui (curved nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yacapitzahuac (sheep-nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yacatecuhtli (nose lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of commerce and merchants. Head of the group clåśśed as the Yacatecuhtli complex.... |
| God name "Yoalli Ehecatli (night wind)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the group clåśśed as the Omeotl complex.... |
| God name "Yoaltecuhtf (lord of night)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. With his consort YACAHUIZTLI he engendered the night in Aztec cosmogony. The ruler of the sixth of the thirteen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest, Teotlcozauhcan (the place of the yellow god). One of the group clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yum Cimil" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. Depicted with a skull head, bare ribs and spiny projections from the vertebrae, or with bloated flesh marked by dark rings of decomposition. He wears bell-like ornaments fastened in the hair. Sacrificial victims were offered to the god by drowning in the sacred pool or cenote. Also God A.... |
| God name "Yum Kaax" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | vegetation god. The deity concerned with the growing and harvesting of maize, but also of husbandry in general. Depicted as a youthful figure with an ear of corn in his headdress. Also God E.... |
| Goddess name "Zapotlantenan" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Healing goddess. deity of medicinal turpentine and ointment-dealers. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex.... |
| God name "Zipakna" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | earthquake god. Usually coupled with the god KABRAKAN and identified as a creator of mountains which Kabrakan subsequently destroys.... |
| God name "Zotz" | Mayan / Zotzil Indian, Mesoamerican / Guatemala | Tutelary god. Manifest in the form of a bat.... |
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