| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ehacatl" | Aztec | God of education and the wind Aztec |
| God name "Ehacatl/ Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec | A god of education & the wind |
| Deities name "Ehecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the second of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to the air or wind and presided over by QUETZALCOATL, to whose complex of deities he belongs. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by hurricanes. All humanity turned into monkeys. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also (4) Ehecatl; Ehecatonatiuh.... |
| God name "Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial god. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, EhecatlQuetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.... |
| God name "Ekahau" | Aztec | God of commerce Aztec |
| God name "Eueucoyotl" | Aztec | God of fertility, sex, pleasure, sorrow and spontaneity. Aztec |
| God name "Gukumatz" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | sky god. The son of the creator gods E QUAHOLOM and E ALOM, and equating to the feathered serpent god of Aztec religion, QUETZALCOATL.... |
| Goddess name "HUITZILPOCHTLI" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Blue hummingbird on left foot. Sun god, patron god of the Aztec nation. The tutelary god of the Aztecs who also regarded him as a war god. He is the southern (blue) aspect or emanation of the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA, the so-called high-flying Sun, and the head of the group clåśśed as the Huitzilpochtli complex. He is regarded, in alternative tradition, as one of the four sons of Tezcatlipoca. His mother is the decapitated earth goddess COATLICUE, from whose womb he sprang fully armed. He slaughtered his sister (moon) and his 400 brothers (stars) in revenge for the death of his mother, signifying the triumph of Sunlight over darkness.... |
| God name "Haiyococab" | Aztec | The Aztec "Water Over earth," from which "the earth-upholding gods escaped when the world was destroyed by a deluge. |
| God name "Huehuecototl" | Aztec | A minor god, one of sexual lust |
| God name "Huehuecototl-Coyotlinahual" | Aztec | A minor god of feather workers |
| God name "Huehuecoyotl" | Aztec | The trickster god of music, dance, song. He is depicted in the as a dancing coyote with human hands and feet, accompanied by a human drummer. Aztec |
| God name "Huehuecoyotl (old coyote)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of sexual lust. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Huehuecoyotl-Coyotlinahual (coyote his disguise)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of feather workers. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Huehueteotl" | Aztec | Old god. A central Mexican / Aztec deity åśśociated with fire |
| God name "Huehueteotl" | Aztec | An ancient god of the hearth, the fire of life. Associated with the pole star and the north, and serves as a skybearer. Aztec |
| God name "Huehuetotl (old god)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| 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 |
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