Although reduced, its range remains large ; given its historical distribution, the jaguar has featured prominently in the mythology of numerous indigenous American cultures, including that of the Maya and Aztec.

In Aztec mythology, the jaguar was considered to be the totem animal of the powerful deity Tezcatlipoca.

Writings from Aztec priests reveal them to be strong panentheists who considered the common mythology to be a symbolic oversimplification meant to be easier for the commoners to understand.

* In Aztec mythology, a pantheon of four hundred rabbit gods known as Centzon Totochtin, led by Ometotchtli or Two Rabbit, represented fertility, parties, and drunkenness.

In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh (, " Movement of the Sun ") was the sun god.

* The Tule tree of Aztec mythology is also associated with a real tree.

In Aztec mythology, Tlaloc was the lord of the third sun which was destroyed by fire.

Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of Aztec civilization of Central Mexico.

The Coat of Arms of Mexico, from Aztec mythology

** The goddess Coatlicue in Aztec mythology

The Aztec and Toltec serpent god Quetzalcoatl also has dragon like wings, like its equivalent in K ' iche ' Maya mythology Q ' uq ' umatz (" feathered serpent ").

These include the Greek god Zeus, the Aztec god Tlaloc, the Mayas ' God K, Slavic mythology's Perun, the Baltic Pērkons / Perkūnas, Thor in Norse mythology, Ukko in Finnish mythology, the Hindu god Indra, and the Shinto god Raijin.

Ehecatl (, ; ) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica.

As the personification of the maguey plant, Mayahuel was also part of a complex of interrelated maternal and fertility goddesses in Aztec mythology and is also connected with notions of fecundity and nourishment.

This dual role gave her both life-giving and a life-ending role in Aztec mythology In the Aztec creation myth of the Five Suns, Chalchiuhtlicue presided over the fourth sun, or creation, in her aspect as goddess of streams and standing water.

* Aztec mythology in popular culture

In Aztec mythology, Tecciztecatl (" old moon god "; also Tecuciztecal, Tecuciztecatl ) was a lunar deity, representing the old " man-in-the-moon ".

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Mictlan () was the underworld of Aztec mythology.

Category: Locations in Aztec mythology

In Aztec mythology, Xolotl () was the god with associations to both lightning and death.

Unlike several other figures in the complex of Aztec female earth deities connected with agricultural and sexual fecundity, Xochiquetzal is always depicted as an alluring and youthful woman, richly attired and symbolically associated with vegetation and in particular flowers.

Pasztory concluded that the figures represented a vegetation and fertility goddess that was a predecessor of the much later Aztec goddess Xochiquetzal.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

Axayacatl ( ( the name means " Water-mask " or " Water-face ") was the sixth Aztec Emperor, a ruler ( tlatoani ) of the Postclassic Mesoamerican Aztec Empire and city of Tenochtitlan, who reigned from 1469 to 1481.

However, the Coes write that xicalli referred to the gourd out of which the beverage was consumed and that the use of a frothing stick ( known as a molinollo ) was a product of creolisation between the Spanish and Aztec ; the original frothing method used by the indigenous people was simply pouring the drink from a height into another vessel.

Aztec civilization developed into a large empire that, much like the Roman Empire, had the goal of exacting tribute from the conquered colonial areas.

Cuauhtémoc ( also known as Cuauhtemotzin, Guatimozin or Guatemoc ; c. 1495 – 28 February 1525 ) was the Aztec ruler ( tlatoani ) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521.

Eventually Cortés recovered some gold from a noble's house, but most of the tales about " Aztec gold " were a myth.

Water, Rabbit, and Deer: three of the 20 day symbols in the Aztec calendar | Aztec calendar, from the Aztec calendar stone.

Conquistadors deposed the Aztec, Inca and Maya governments with extensive help from local factions and laid claim to vast stretches of land in North and South America.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Toltec " came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

In 1428, the Aztec led a war of liberation against their rulers from the city of Azcapotzalco, which had subjugated most of the Valley of Mexico's peoples.

The word " chocolate " originated from Mexico's Aztec cuisine, derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl.

In pueblos or villages, there are also more exotic dishes, cooked in the Aztec or Mayan style ( known as comida prehispánica ) with ingredients ranging from iguana to rattlesnake, deer, corn fungus, spider monkey, chapulines, ant eggs and other kinds of insects.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

With increasingly bizarre action storylines coming into vogue Luke and Laura saved the world from being frozen, brought a mobster down by finding his black book in a Left-Handed Boy Statue, and helped a Princess find her Aztec Treasure in Mexico.

In the Aztec calendar, Tonatiuh is the lord of the thirteen days from 1 Death to 13 Flint.

The tepoztopilli was a pole-arm, and to judge from depictions in various Aztec codices, it was roughly the height of a man, with a broad wooden head about twice the length of the users ' palm or shorter, edged with razor-sharp obsidian blades which were deeply set in grooves carved into the head, and cemented in place with bitumen or plant resin as an adhesive.

* October – Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies from smallpox.

The Aztec people had previously made a fermented beverage from the agave plant, which they called octli ( later, and more popularly called pulque ), long before the Spanish arrived in 1521.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tōllān ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Tōltēcatl " ( singular ) or " Tōltēcatl " ( plural ) came to take on the meaning " artisan ".