Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
Spirit name "Cihuateto" | Aztec | These are women that die in childbirth, gain eternal life & become spirits that accompany the Sun |
God name "Cinteotl" | Aztec | A god of fertility |
God name "Cinteotl" | Aztec | God of fertility Aztec |
Monster name "Cipactli" | Aztec | A vicious primeval sea monster, part crocodile and part fish. Always hungry, every joint on her body was adorned with an extra mouth. Aztec |
Goddess name "Cipactli" | Aztec / Mexico | A primordial goddess of water |
Deities name "Cipactonal" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
God name "Citalatonac" | Aztec | Creator god. Aztec |
Deities name "Citlalatonac (glowing star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex. His consort is CITLALICUE. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
Goddess name "Citlalicue" | Aztec | Creator goddess and the goddess of milky Way. Aztec |
Goddess name "Citlalicue (her skirt is a star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Ometeotl complex. Her consort is Citlalatonac. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
Deities name "Co(co)chimetl (soporific)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of merchants and commerce. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Coatlicue" | Aztec | Goddess of the earth. Aztec |
Deity name "Coniraya" | Aztec | The deity of the moon who fashioned his sperm into a fruit, which Cavillaca then ate. Aztec |
Goddess name "Coyolxauhqui" | Aztec | She with the bells on her cheeks. Goddess of the moon. Aztec |
Goddess name "Coyolxauhqui (golden bells)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Astral goddess. A deification and incarnation (avatara) of the moon. According to tradition she is the half-sister of the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. The god sprang, fully armed, from his decapitated mother, COATLICUE, and engaged all his enemies who, by inference, are the 400 astral gods, his half-brothers. He slew his sister and hurled her from the top of a mountain. Alternative tradition suggests his sister was an ally whom he was unable to save, so he decapitated her and threw her head into the sky, where she became the moon. She was represented in the Great Temple at Tenochtitlan, where she was depicted in front of successive Huitzilopochtli pyramids. She is also a hearth deity within the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "E Alom (conceiver of cbildren)" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | Primeval creator goddess. The consort of E QUAHOLOM, identified in the sacred Maya Book, the Popol Vub. Her son is GUKUMATZ, the counterpart of the Aztec god QUETZALCOATL. Also Bitol.... |
Goddess name "E Quaholom (begetter of cbildren)" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemala highlands | Primeval creator god. Identified in the sacred Maya Book the Popol Vub. The consort of the goddess E ALOM and the father of GUKUMATZ who equates with the Aztec QUETZALCOATL. Also Tzacol.... |