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Xolotl statue displayed at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. Codex Borbonicus (p. 16) Xolotl is depicted as a companion of the Setting Sun. [4] He is pictured with a knife in his mouth, a symbol of death. [5] Xolotl was the sinister god of monstrosities who wears the spirally-twisted wind jewel and the ear ornaments of ...
The axolotl (/ ˈ æ k s ə l ɒ t əl / ⓘ; from Classical Nahuatl: āxōlōtl [aːˈʃoːloːtɬ] ⓘ) (Ambystoma mexicanum) [3] is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander.
The Codex Xolotl (also known as Códice Xolotl) is a postconquest cartographic Aztec codex, thought to have originated before 1542. [1] It is annotated in Nahuatl and details the preconquest history of the Valley of Mexico , and Texcoco in particular, from the arrival of the Chichimeca under the king Xolotl in the year 5 Flint (1224) to the ...
Xolotl from the 15th century Codex Fejervary-Mayer. Among the Aztecs, the god Xolotl was a monstrous dog. [13] During the creation of the Fifth Sun, Xolotl was hunted by Death and escaped him by transforming himself first into a sprout of maize, then into maguey leaves and finally as a salamander in a pool of water. The third time that Death ...
Xolotl is probably identical with Nanahuatl. [4] Seler characterizes Nanahuatzin ("Little Pustule Covered One"), who is deformed by syphilis, as an aspect of Xolotl in his capacity as god of monsters, deforming diseases, and deformities. [5] The syphilitic god Nanahuatzin is an avatar of Xolotl. [6]
Xolotl (or Xólotl; Nahuatl pronunciation:) was a 13th-century Chichimec leader, a Tlatoani.He was named after the god Xolotl, an eventual Aztec god. [1]Chichimeca is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to a wide range of semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
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Xolotl may refer to: . Xolotl, an Aztec and central Mexican deity associated with lightning and death; King Xolotl, a semi-legendary 13th century Chichimec leader; Codex Xolotl, a pictographic codex from Central Mexico, recounting a traditional history of the Valley of Mexico