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Tecpatl (sacrificial knife), image based on the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, the tecpatl was sometimes drawn as a simple flint blade, sharpened with some notches on the edge, in the Codex Borgia it appears red. [3] Tecpatl was associated with Northern cardinal point ., [4] the dark place of eternal stillness and rest of the dead.
Depiction of two Aztec warriors, the warrior on the right is wielding a tlaximaltepoztli. The bronze axe is mentioned in the Relación de Michoacán, in the story of the Purepecha's Princess Erendira, who resisted the Spanish invasion. In one part of the story, it is described how the local women started to dress the princess and gave her axes ...
However, she can also appear with clear butterfly or eagle attributes. Her wings are obsidian or tecpatl (flint) knife tipped. [5] (In the Manuscript of 1558, Itzpapalotl is described as having "blossomed into the white flint, and they took the white and wrapped it in a bundle.") She could appear in the form of a beautiful, seductive woman or ...
Aztec warriors, each holding a mācuahuitl, as depicted in the Florentine Codex (Vol. IX). Mācuahuitl : A flat wooden staff or club with obsidian blades embedded in the edges. These weapons could be used to inflict either cutting wounds (with the obsidian blades) or to club an opponent unconscious (with the flat side).
Aztec or Mixtec frog ornament necklace from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15-16th cent. Frogs are associated with the earth. Metal working in Mesoamerica, especially of silver, gold and copper was advanced by the time the Spanish arrived, mostly concentrated in the modern states of Michoacán, Oaxaca and Guerrero.
Chalchihuihtotolin is a symbol of powerful sorcery. Tezcatlipoca can tempt humans into self-destruction, but when he takes the form of a turkey he can also cleanse them of contamination, absolve them of guilt, and overcome their fate. In the tonalpohualli, Chalchihuihtotolin rules over day Tecpatl (Stone Knife) and over trecena 1-Atl (Water). [1]
The Aztec form of writing is largely pictorial and was a semasiographic system, meaning writing existed separately from spoken word. [5] The glyphs were recognizable to their meaning, and members of the population would understand what day it was and their current position in time. [ 5 ]
This category contains locations identified by some aspect of the mythological traditions of the Aztec and related Central Mexican pre-Columbian cultures. These locations may be either mythical places , or real locations imbued with a mythological or legendary character.