| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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.... |
| 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 "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 |
| God name "Ometeoti (two god)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial being. According to some traditions, the dual principle personified in a bisexual force which the Aztecs believed to be the only reality, all else being illusory. Ometeotl rules in the highest (thirteenth) heaven, Omeyocan (place of duality) which rests above Sun, moon, wind and other elements. Ometeotl impregnated itself to engender the four TEZCATLIPOCAS (aspects of the Sun). Another female aspect, COATLICUE, gave birth to the national Aztec god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. No formal cult existed for Ometeotl, but he was considered to be present in every aspect of ritual.See also TONACATECUHTLI and TONACACIHUATL.... |
| Deities name "Pahteeatl (medicine lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group of deities known as the Ometochtli complex and concerned with the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque from the maguey plant.... |
| God name "Patecatl" | Aztec | A god of healing and fertility, and the discoverer of peyote. Aztec |
| God name "Pleione" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas. Her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson, Hermes, was the god of animal husbandry. Greek |
| God name "Quetzalcoatl" | Toltec | God of the air and presided over commerce, fertility, wind and of wisdom. Toltec |
| God name "Quetzalcoatl/ Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli" | Aztec | A manifestation of Sun the god, he is a savior of his people as well & there is not enough room here to tell his story |
| God name "Tecciztecatl" | Aztec | God of the moon. Aztec |
| God name "Tecciztecatl (conch shell lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon 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. Alternatively, the pair are sons of QUETZALCOATL and of TLALOC and were hurled into the fire by their fathers. Also one of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed them selves for mankind.... |
| God name "Telpochtli (male youth)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Omnipotent god. A universal and generally malevolent power. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| God name "Tepeyollotl (hill heart)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic or earth god. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. He was originally an earthquake god, symbolized by the jaguar and later adopted into the Aztec pantheon.... |
| God name "Tepozlecatl" | Aztec | The god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility. Aztec |
| God name "Tepoztecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex concerned with the maguey plant and the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque.... |
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