Religion of AzteCs..?

Question

heello! anybody knows the religion of Aztecs? tnx.

Answer 1

Large parts of the Aztec pantheon were inherited from previous Mesoamerican civilizations and others, such as Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, were venerated by different names in most cultures throughout the history of Mesoamerica. For the Aztecs especially important deities were Tlaloc the god of rain, Huitzilopochtli Patron god of the Mexica tribe, Quetzalcoatl culture hero and god of civilization and order, and Tezcatlipoca god of destiny and fortune, connected with war and sorcery. Each of these gods had their own temples within the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan - Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli were both worshipped at the Templo Mayor. A common Aztec religious practice was the recreation of the divine: Mythological events would be ritually recreated and living persons would impersonate specific deities and be revered as a god - and often ritually sacrificed.

H. B. Nicholson (1971) classed the gods into three groups according to their conceptual meaning in general Mesoamerican religion. The first groups he calls the "Celestial creativity - Divine Paternalism group", and it contains such gods as the creator couple Ometeotl and Omecihuatl, Tezcatlipoca and Xiuhtecutli. The second one is the Rain-Moisture-Agricultural fertility complex coatining gods like Tlaloc, Centeotl, the earthmother gods, the Pulque gods and Xipe Totec. The third group, the War-Sacrifice-Sanguinary Nourishment group contained such gods as Ome Tochtli, Huitzilopochtli, Mictlantecutli and Mixcoatl. Instead of Nicholsons subtle classification in the following a more impressionist classification is presented.



Tezcatlipoca depicted in the Codex Borgia.Cultural Gods

Tezcatlipoca - means "Smoking Mirror", a panmesoamerican shaman God, omnipotent universal power.

Quetzalcoatl - means "Feathered Serpent", a panmesoamerican god of life, the wind and the morningstar

Tlaloc - a panmesoamerican god of rain, storm, water and thunder

Mixcoatl - means "Cloud Serpent", the tribal God of many of the Nahua people such as the Tlaxcalteca, god of war, sacrifice and hunting

Huitzilopochtli - means "Hummingbird Left", the tribal God of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, god of war and sacrifice

Nature gods

Tonatiuh - The Sun

Metztli - The Moon

Tlaltecuhtli - means "Earth Lord", Goddess of the Earth

Chalchiuhtlicue - means "Jade Her Skirt", Goddess of springs

Centzon Huitznahua - means "The 400 Southerners", Gods of the stars

Ehecatl the Wind, often conflated with Quetzalcoatl and called "Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl"



Xipe Totec "Our flayed lord" wearing a human skin depicted in the Codex Borgia.Gods of creation

Ometeotl/Ometecutli/Omecihuatl/Tonacat... - The doublegendered creator god

Huehueteotl/Xiuhtecutli - means "Old God" and "Turquoise Lord", god of origin, time, fire and old age

Coatlicue/Toci/Teteo Innan/Tonantzin - female progenitor goddesses

Gods of Pulque and excess

Tlazolteotl - Goddess of filth and guilt and of cleansing

Tepoztecatl - God of Pulque worshipped at Tepoztlan

Xochiquetzal - Goddess of pleasure and indulgence, and s*x

Mayahuel - Goddess of Pulque and Maguey

The Auiateteo:

Macuiltochtli

Macuilxochitl

Macuilcuetzpalin

Macuilcozcacuauhtli

Macuilmalinalli

Centzon Totochtin - "the 400 Rabbits", god of drunkenness

Ometocthli - means "Two Rabbit", leader of the Centzon Totochtin, god of fertility, and drunkenness



Xochipilli wearing a deerskin as depicted in the Codex Borgia.Gods of Maize and fertility

Xipe Totec - means "Our Flayed Lord", Fertility god associated with spring, patron god of goldsmiths

Cinteotl - God of Maize

Xilonen/Chicomecoatl - Goddess of tender maize

Xochipilli means "Flower Prince", God of happiness, flowers, pleasure and fertility

Gods of death and the underworld

Mictlantecutli - Lord of the underworld

Mictlancihuatl - Queen of the underworld

Xolotl

Tradegods

Yacatecutli - means "Nose Lord", god of merchants

Patecatl - god of doctors and medicine

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_relig...

Pretty self-explanatory.

Answer 3

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