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Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli Cuauhxicalli

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Title: Tezcatlipoca and Huitzilopochtli Cuauhxicalli

Caption: Tezcatlipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion. He is associated with a wide range of concepts, including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife. Tezcatlipoca is often portrayed as a jaugar, His name, "smoking mirror," comes from the black obsidian used by Aztec priests for looking into the future. Huitzilopochtli was a god of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was also the national god of the Mexicas of Tenochtitlan. Huitzilopochtli was a tribal god and a legendary wizard of the Aztecs. Originally he was of little importance to the Nahuas, but after the rise of the Aztecs, Tlacaelel reformed their religion and put Huitzilopochtli at the same level as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, and Tezcatlipoca, making him a solar god. A cuauhxicalli or quauhxicalli was an altar-like stone vessel made of lava used by the Aztecs to contain human hearts extracted in sacrificial ceremonies.

Personalities: AZTEC

Category: ILLUSTRATION • History: Ancient

Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library

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Image size: 3289 × 3302 px | 31.1 MB

Print size: 27.8 × 28.0 cm | 1294.9 × 1300.0 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ART • ARTFORM: ICON • ARTWORK • AZTEC CIVILIZATION • AZTEC EMPIRE • AZTEC GOD • AZTEC PANTHEON • AZTEC RELIGION • AZTEC • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CENTRAL AMERICA • CUAUHXICALLI • DEATH GOD • DEITY • DRAWING • EAGLE GOURD BOWL • EAGLE VASE • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • FIRE SERPENT • GOD OF CHANGE • GOD OF CONFLICT • GOD OF CRIMINALS • GOD OF DEATH • GOD OF DISCORD • GOD OF HUMAN DESTINY • GOD OF HUMAN SACRIFICE • GOD OF NIGHT • GOD OF SLAVES • GOD OF SORCERERS • GOD OF SUN • GOD OF TEMPTATION • GOD OF WAR • GOD OF WARRIORS • GOD • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: ANCIENT • HUITZILOPOCHTLI • ICON • ICONOGRAPHY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • IMPORTANT • LEGEND • LEGENDARY • MESOAMERICA • MESOAMERICAN RELIGION • MESOAMERICAN • MYTH • MYTHOLOGICAL • MYTHOLOGY • NAHUAS • NAHUATL • NOTABLE • PATRON GOD OF MEXICA TRIBE • PATRON GOD OF TENOCHTITLAN • PEOPLE FROM AZTLAN • PRIMITIVE ART • QUAUHXICALLI • SACRIFICIAL CEREMONY • SOLAR DIETY • STONE VESSEL • STORE HUMAN HEART • TEZCATLIPOCA • TRIBAL GOD • UITZILOPOCHTLI • WARGOD • WELL-KNOWN • WIZARD