Manchmal wird behauptet, er habe eine schwester, malinalxochi, gehabt. Through this, huitzilopochtli replaced nanahuatzin, the solar god from the nahua legend. En su pie izquierdo tenia una sandalia adornada tambien con plumas. Huitzilopochtli, whose name means blue hummingbird on the left, was the aztec god of the sun and the war. In aztec religion, coyolxauhqui is a daughter of the priestess coatlicue serpent skirt. Huitzilopochtlis name is a cognate of the nahuatl words huitzilin, hummingbird, and opochtli, left. The ascension of mount coatepetl by coyolxauhqui and the. Coatlicue vivia en coatepec, donde hacia penitencia barriendo. Huitzilopochtli instantly pierced coyolxauhqui, slashed off her head, and cut off her.
And when they had been taken around it, once again they put them in file. Colonial documents refer sometimes to three lakes, at times as many as six based on. In the aztec religion, huitzilopochtli is a deity of war, sun, human sacrifice, and the patron of the. Seine mutter war coatlicue, sein vater ein ball federn oder auch mixcoatl. The birth of huitzilopochtli, patron god of the aztecs this is a teocuitatl, divine song, a sort of epic poem in which the birth of huitzilopochtli is recalled.
The attack is thwarted by coyolxauhquis other brother, huitzilopochtli, the national. The portentous patron god of the aztecs was the son of coatlicue, she of the skirt of serpents, a title. The birth of huitzilopochtli, patron god of the aztecs pdf. His sister, coyolxauhqui, tried to kill their mother because she became pregnant in a shameful way by a ball of feathers. Her offspring, huitzilopochtli, learned of this plan while still in the womb, and before it was put into action, sprang from his mothers womb fully grown and fully armed and killed his sister coyolxauhqui, together with many of his 400 brothers and sisters. 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. Huitzilopochtli or hummingbird of the south or l left. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. Huitzilopochtli simple english wikipedia, the free. Codex borbonicus pdf tezcatlipoca and quezalcoatl ver mas.
He then tossed his sisters head into the sky, where it became the moon, so that his. The aztec icons huitzilopochtli huitzilopochtli hummingbird of the south hweetsilopochtlee is the god of war, power, force, action, accomplishment, and nobility, as well as patron of the city of tenochtitlan and god of the south. The books are in pdf suitable for your ebook reader. Huitzilopochtli was the patron god of the mexica tribe. He was shown as a blue man fully armed with hummingbird feathers on his head. Within the corpus of ethnohistorical documents that were painted. Su santuario fundamental estaba en huitzilopochco huitzilopochco, ahora churubusco.
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