In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin)[citation needed] are a set of thirteen gods that ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens.[citation needed] They were cyclical, so that the same god recurred every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are[1]
- Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire and time.
- Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the earth.
- Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism.
- Tonatiuh, god of the sun.
- Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds.
- Mictlantecuhtli, god of the underworld.
- Centeotl, god of maize. Also recognized as Chicomecoatl,[2] goddess of agriculture.
- Tlaloc, god of the thunder, rain and earthquakes.
- Quetzalcoatl, god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, fertility, patron of the winds and the light, the lord of the West.
- Tezcatlipoca, god of providence, matter and the invisible, ruler of the night, Great Bear, impalpable, ubiquity and the twilight, the lord of the North.
- Mictecacihuatl, goddess of the underworld.
- Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, god of dawn.
- Citlalicue, goddess of the female stars (Milky Way).
Sources
edit- ^ Panorama Editorial, ed. (1998). Dioses Prehispánicos de México (in Spanish). México. pp. 140, 141. ISBN 968-38-0306-7.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Cecilio Agustín Robelo (1905). Biblioteca Porrúa. Imprenta del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnología (ed.). Diccionario de Mitología Nahua (in Spanish). Mexico. p. 72. ISBN 978-9684327955.
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