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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 axolotl can grow up to 12 inches and weigh anywhere from three to eight pounds, and its average lifespan in the wild is 10-15 years. Most axolotls are dark brown with some black speckling, but ...
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 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
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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.
The journey from the first level to the ninth is difficult and takes four years, but the dead are aided by the psychopomp, Xolotl. The dead must pass many challenges, such as crossing a mountain range where the mountains crash into each other, a field with wind that blows flesh-scraping knives, and a river of blood with fearsome jaguars.