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.

In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal ( from xochitl " flower " and quetzalli ) a " quetzal bird ", also called Ichpōchtli, meaning " maiden ",< ref name =" dic ">< i > Nahuatl Dictionary .</ i > ( 1997 ).

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.

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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.

In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui (, " Face painted with Bells ") was a daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl and is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the star gods.

In Aztec mythology, the Centzon Totochtin (" four-hundred rabbits "; also Centzontotochtin ) are a group of deities who meet for frequent parties ; they are divine rabbits, and the gods of drunkenness.

In Aztec mythology, the Centzonuitznahua ( or, in plural, Centzon Huitznauhtin ) were the gods of the southern stars.

The band were influenced by the chirpy sound of British 80s pop groups like Haircut One Hundred, Exhibit B, The Style Council and Aztec Camera, as well as the fashionably eclectic sounds of early 90s Britain, from indie dance to acid jazz.

While Mixcoatl was part of the Aztec pantheon, his role was less important than that of Huitzilopochtli, who was their central deity.

Quecholli, the 14th veintena, the 20-day Aztec month, was dedicated to Mixcoatl.

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.

Ahuizotl (, ) ( meaning roughly " water dog ") was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.

In Aztec mythic cosmography, Tlaloc ruled the fourth layer of the ' Upper World ", or heavens, which is called Tlalocan (" place of Tlaloc ") in several Aztec codices, such as the Vaticanus A and Florentine codices.

In the myth the ancestors of the Mexica / Aztec came from a place in the north called Aztlan, the last of seven nahuatlacas ( Nahuatl-speaking tribes, from tlaca, " man ") to make the journey southward, hence their name " Azteca.

Chalchiuhtlicue ( also Chalciuhtlicue, or Chalcihuitlicue ) (" She of the Jade Skirt ") was an Aztec goddess of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism.

In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtotolin ( Nahuatl for " Jade Turkey ") was a god of disease and plague.

In Aztec mythology, Tonacatecuhtli (" lord of our sustenance ") was a fertility god, who was worshipped for being the power ( tecuhtli ) that warmed the earth and made it fruitful.

In Aztec mythology, Tloquenahuaque or Tloque Nahuaque (" Lord of the Near and the Nigh ") was one of the epithets of Tezcatlipoca.

In Aztec mythology and religion, Xipe Totec or Xipetotec (" our lord the flayed one ") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, disease, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths and the seasons.

The royal diadem ( or xiuhuitzolli, " pointed turquoise thing ") of the Aztec emperors apparently represented the tail of the Xiuhcoatl, the fire serpent.

In Aztec mythology, Ītzpāpālōtl (" Obsidian Butterfly ") was a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess who ruled over the paradise world of Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and place identified where humans were created .< ref >

Many of them were presented as different species ( e. g., " monkey man ") and described as being the missing link, but it was also common for them to be presented as the last surviving Aztec.

Acamapichtli (, meaning " Handful of reeds ") was the first tlatoani, or ruler, of the Aztecs ( or Mexica ) of Tenochtitlan, and founder of the Aztec imperial dynasty.

Itzcoatl (, " Obsidian Serpent ") was the fourth emperor of the Aztecs, ruling from 1427 ( or 1428 ) to 1440, the period when the Mexica threw off the domination of the Tepanecs and laid the foundations for the eventual Aztec Empire.

The name comes from an Aztec dialect via Nahuatl āhuacamolli, which literally translates to " avocado sauce ", from āhuacatl (" avocado ") + molli (" sauce ").

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The Aztec armed forces were typically composed of a large number of commoners ( yāōquīzqueh, " those who have gone to war ") who possessed only basic military training, and a smaller but still considerable number of professional warriors belonging to the nobility ( pīpiltin ) and who were organized into warrior societies and ranked according to their achievements.

Día de Muertos (" Day of the Dead ") is a Mexican tradition rooted in Aztec culture, which celebrates life and the lives of those departed.

He was the tenth, and penultimate, Aztec emperor and the one who defeated Hernán Cortés in the Battle of La Noche Triste (" Sad Night ") in 1520.

In Aztec mythology, Huehuecóyotl ( nahuatl " Very old coyote ") is the auspicious god of music, dance, mischief and song of ancient Mexico.