| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Metsaka" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Known as grandmother moon, she is the consort of the fire god TATEVALI. She guards the Huichol against the god of death, TOKAKAMI.... |
| Deities name "Metztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor moon god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| Deities name "Mexitli (maguey-hare)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of war. One of the group of deities belonging to the HUITZILPOCHTLI complex.... |
| Goddess name "Micapetlacoli (dead mat chest)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld goddess. One of the group of deities belonging to the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| Goddess name "Mictecacihuatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. One of a pair of deities with MICTLANTECUHTLI. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed.... |
| Goddess name "Mictlantecuhtli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld god. The creator of the underworld, Mictlan. Depicted with a skull-like appearance and protruding teeth. Also one of a pair of deities with MICTECACIHUATL. In the primeval waters of the cosmos, they generated the monstrous goddess CIPACTLI, from whom the earth was formed. In alternative traditions he is the god of the sixth of the thirteen heavens, Ilhuicatl Mamalhuazocan (the heaven of the fire drill), or he is one of the gods who support the lowest heaven at the four cardinal points. Mictlantecuhtli is perceived to reside in the south (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is also one of the four great temple deities (codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervery-Mayer).... |
| God name "Mixcoatl-Camaxtli (cloud serpent)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Also a deity of hunting and fire who received human sacrifice of captured prisoners. According to tradition, the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA transformed himself into MIXCOATL-CAMAXTLI to make fire by twirling the sacred fire sticks.... |
| Deities name "Moyocoyani (maker of himself)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of universal power. One of the group of deities known as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| God name "Naguai" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Tutelary deity. A generic name for a personal god. A nagual generally takes the form of an animal and it may be adopted either by a mortal being or by another deity.... |
| Deities name "Nahui Ehecati" | Aztec / mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor water god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TLALOC complex. Also (4)Ehecatl.... |
| God name "Nahui Oiiin (earthquake sun)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to most of the codices, at the time of the Spanish conquest there had been four previous world ages, each represented by a Sun and terminated by a cataclysm. Ollin, the fifth Sun, was created at Teotihuacan and at the conquest was just under 2,000 years old. It is presided over by the god TONATIUH. Each creation is considered to last 2028 x 52 terrestrial years and the present one is destined to be destroyed by a great earthquake. Tradition has it that Ollin was originally a sickly or humble deity named NANAHUATL (the diseased one). Also (4)Ollin; Ollintonatiuh.... |
| 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.... |
| 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.... |
| 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 / 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 "Ohoroxtotil (god almighty)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the Sun and the deity who made the world inhabitable for mankind by destroying the jaguars which once infested it.... |
| Deity name "Olin-Tonatiuh" | Mesoamerican | Sun deity of the fifth and final era, the Fifth Sun. Mesoamerican |
| God name "Omacati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of feasting and revelry. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. Also (2)Acatl.... |
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