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Tecciztecatl was portrayed as an old man who carries a large white seashell on his back. Most legends of Chalchiuhtlicue say that she was married to the god of rain, Tlaloc.
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Tecciztecatl and was
With Chalchiuhtlicue, he was the father of Tecciztecatl.
She was the mother of Tecciztecatl, an Aztec moon god.
Chalchiuhtlicue was also mother of Tecciztecatl, the Aztec moon god.
In Aztec mythology, Tecciztecatl (" old moon god "; also Tecuciztecal, Tecuciztecatl ) was a lunar deity, representing the old " man-in-the-moon ".
He / she was probably the same deity as Yohaulticetl and Coyolxauhqui and the male moon god Tecciztecatl ; like the latter, he / she feared the sun because he / she feared its fire.
Tecciztecatl and who
The former is chosen to serve as the sun because he is wealthy and strong, while the latter will serve as the moon because he is poor and ill. Tecciztecatl, who is proud, sees his impending sacrifice and transformation as an opportunity to gain immortality.
Tecciztecatl and on
The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that snails signified the time to harvest by climbing the stalks, while the Aztec moon god Tecciztecatl bore a snail shell on his back.
But proud Tecciztecatl insisted on the honor, but at the last moment hesitated.
Tecciztecatl and .
There Nanahuatzin and Tecciztecatl jumped into a sacrificial fire and became the sun and the moon.
Two gods – Nanauatl and Tecciztecatl – vied for the honor.
Tecciztecatl gained his courage and followed Nanauatl, thus forming two suns in the sky.
The gods, being somewhat class conscious, were angry that rich and proud Tecciztecatl had to follow humble Nanauatl, threw a rabbit at Tecciztecatl leaving an imprint of the rabbit ’ s shape and dimming Tecciztecatl ’ s brightness to where he could only be seen at night.
Two gods are chosen: Tecciztecatl and Nanahuatzin.
Tecciztecatl makes offerings of rich gifts and coral.
On the appointed day, Tecciztecatl and Nanahuatzin seat themselves upon the platform, awaiting the moment of sacrifice.
The gods call upon Tecciztecatl to immolate himself first.
His pride wounded upon seeing that Nanahuatzin had the courage that he lacked, Tecciztecatl jumps upon the burning pyre after him.
Tecciztecatl thus becomes the moon, which bears the impression of a rabbit to this very day.
She may have been the same as Metztli and Coyolxauhqui and the male moon god Tecciztecatl.
was and portrayed
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was and old
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.
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He was about 50 years old.
`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
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