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The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-05068-2. OCLC 27667317. Quiñones Keber, Eloise (1995). Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript. Michel Besson (illus.). Austin: University of Texas ...
In Mesoamerican culture, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl: Tōnatiuh [toːˈnatiʍ] "Movement of the Sun") is an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east. [1] According to Aztec Mythology, Tonatiuh was known as "The Fifth Sun" and was given a calendar name of naui olin, which means "4 Movement". [2]
Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of ... god of the Sun; Tlazolteotl, ... The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the ...
Tonatiuh, a god of the Sun. He is also part of the Thirteen Heavens. [4] Nanauatzin, a god of the Sun. Nanauatzin sacrificed himself in a fire so that the Sun should continue to shine. Tēcciztēcatl, god who represents the male aspect of the Moon. Tecciztecatl is the son of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue.
They created the other gods, the most important of whom were the water gods: Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility and Chalchiuhtlicue, the goddess of lakes, rivers and oceans and also the goddess of beauty. To give light, they needed a god to become the sun and the Black Tezcatlipoca was chosen, but either because he had lost a leg or because ...
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1095-4. OCLC 60131674. Harvey, Doug (2012). "How a Feathered God Presided Over a Golden Age of Mexican Art". Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Vol. 33, no. 5. pp. 34– 39.
God of force and agriculture, lord of seasons, regeneration and crafts. Ruler of the East West: Quetzalcoatl (Quetzalcohuātl) Feathered Serpent God of life, light and wisdom, lord of the day and the winds. Ruler of the West: South: Huitzilopochtli (Huītzilopōchtli) Left-handed Hummingbird God of war and will, lord of the Sun and fire. Ruler ...
The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout the region. The Aztec sun stone depicts calendrical symbols on its inner ring but did not function as an actual ...