The Aztec Religion By Kirk Reynolds Page 1 The Aztecs were a very powerful and very devoted religious society ruled over by 20 gods. The main gods Tezcatlipoca - means "Smoking Mirror", a shaman God, omnipotent universal power. Quetzalcoatl - means "Feathered Serpent", a god of life, the wind and the morningstar Tlaloc - a 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 "Left-handed Hummingbird", the tribal God of the Mexica ofTenochtitlan, god of war and sacrifice The gods of nature 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" The gods of creation Ometeotl/Ometecutli/Omecihuatl/Tonacatecutli/Tonacacihuatl - The double-gendered creator god Huehueteotl/Xiuhtecutli - means "Old God" and "Turquoise Lord", god of origin, time, fire and old age Coatlicue/Toci/Teteo Innan/Tonantzin - female goddesses The gods of excess Tlazolteotl - Goddess of filth and guilt and of cleansing Tepoztecatl - God of Pulque worshipped at Tepoztlan Xochiquetzal - Goddess of pleasure and indulgence Mayahuel - Goddess of Pulque and Maguey Centzon Totochtin - "the 400 Rabbits", god of drunkenness Ometochtli - means "Two Rabbit", leader of the Centzon Totochtin, god of fertility, and drunkenness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_religion
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The Aztec Religion
By Kirk Reynolds Page 1
The Aztecs were a very powerful and very devoted religious society ruled over by 20 gods.
The main gods
Tezcatlipoca - means "Smoking Mirror", a shaman God, omnipotent universal power.
Q uetzalcoatl - means "Feathered Serpent", a god of life, the wind and the morningstar Tlaloc - a 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 "Left-handed Hummingbird", the tribal God of the Mexica of
Tenochtitlan, god of war and sacrifice
The gods of nature
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 Q uetzalcoatl and called "Q uetzalcoatl-Ehecatl"
The gods of creation
Ometeotl/Ometecutli/Omecihuatl/Tonacatecutli/Tonacacihuatl - The double-gendered creator
god
Huehueteotl/Xiuhtecutli - means "Old God" and "Turquoise Lord", god of origin, time, fire andold age
s. The jaguar warrior used a club instead of a sword, because
they could smash through wooden shields.
Source D
This source is a secondary source, because it tells you who wrote it and the date. This was published
after the event was happened. This source tells you how the Aztec treated their main god,
Huitzilopochtli, and what he was worshipped for. This also tells us it will become one of the most
worshipped gods in all of Mexico.
Source E
This source is a primary source, because it was carved using what looks like primitive told. Thissource also tells us that it was used to hold the heart of sacrifices before they were thrown in the
fire and the smoke was offered to the gods. Due to the fact that jaguars are one of the most holy
animals in the Aztec empire this would of been found in most temples around Mexico e.g.
Tenochtitlan.
Source F
This is a secondary source telling us that the Aztecs used sociological weapons to maintain the tribes
that they conquered. They demanded money from these tribes and would have been easily
outnumbered if the tribes had conquered joined forces and attacked. The Aztecs stopped this by
demanding the prisoners. This would force tribes to attack each other and thus the relationsbetween tribes were kept to a hostile relationship, and strengthen the Aztec presence amongst