User blog:Rora Raro/Aztec Mythology

I've been doing so many blogs on animals, that I decided to mix things up a little. So I made a blog on Aztec Mythology (it's my favorite mythology).

'''1. Huitzilopochtli'''



Also called Uitzilopochtli or Xiuhpilli (“Turquoise Prince”) and Totec (“Our Lord”). He's the Aztec sun and war god, and one of the two principal deities of Aztec religion, he's often represented in art as either a hummingbird or an eagle. Huitzilopochtli’s name is a cognate of the Nahuatl words huitzilin, “hummingbird,” and opochtli, “left.” Aztecs believed that dead warriors were reincarnated as hummingbirds and considered the south to be the left side of the world; thus, his name meant the “resuscitated warrior of the south.”

'''2. Tlaloc'''



Tlaloc is the god of rain, lightning, and thunder. He's a fertility god, but also a raging deity. He is responsible for both floods and droughts. Tlaloc is commonly depicted as a goggle-eyed blue being with jaguar fangs. He is often presented wearing a net of clouds, a crown of heron feather and foam sandals. He carries rattles to make thunder. Tlaloc was first married to the goddess Xochiquetzal, but then Tezcatlipoca kidnapped her. He is the ruler of Tlalocan, the fourth heaven. Tlalocan is the place of eternal spring, a paradise of green plants.

'''3. Mictlantecuhtli'''



Mictlantecuhtli is ruler over Mictlan, the lowest underworld, the northern realm of the dead. Mictlantecuhtli's wife is Mictlancihuatl. He's associated with the spider, the owl, and the bat. He was the ruler of the 10th day Itzcuintli (Dog), the 5th Lord of the Night and the 6th (or 11th) Lord of the Day. He was the equivalent of the Maya god Yum Cimil, the Zapotec god Kedo and the Tarascan god Tihuime. Mictlantecuhtli was such an important god in the Aztec pantheon because, as ruler of Mictlán, all souls would one day meet him face to face.

'''4. Huixtocihuatl'''



Huixtocihuatl was a fertility goddess who was the patron of salt and salt waters. She was also the patroness of salt making and the discoverer of salt itself. Huixtocihuatl was the older sister of the Tlaloques, the Aztec rain gods. The most important of these was Tlaloc, the Lord of the Celestial Waters. Legend has it Huixtocihuatl was in a heated argument with the Tlaloques, and they tried to drown her in salt water. In the seventh month of the Aztec year, a ten-day festival dedicated to Huixtocihuatl was held.