| Aztec Deities II |
| Ciuteoteo |
| In Aztec mythology, the Ciuteoteo were spirits of the underworld who lived under the protection Ciucoatl. They carry down the sun from the highest point of the sky to its home in the underworld in the shape of eagles, bringing illness to children. They were either the souls of the woman who died giving birth to children, or who had become warriors. |
| Civatateo |
| These Mexican vampires date back to the of the days of the Aztecs and are believed to be the servants of the gods. Thus, they have the magical powers of a priest. All civateteo are noblewomen who died during childbirth and have now returned to earth. These creatures stalk travelers at crossroads and lurk in temples or churches. They are terrible to look upon, shriveled and as white as chalk. Often a death�s head or other glyph is painted on their clothes or tattooed on their flesh. |
| Coatlicue |
| The Aztec goddess of earth and fire, and mother of the gods and mother of the stars of the southern sky. She was positive and negative and therefore had the ability to bless or punish. Her daughter is the goddess Coyolxauhqui. Coatlicue was magically impregnated by a ball of feathers. Her outraged children decapitated her, but the god Huitzilopochtli emerged fully armed from his mother's womb and slew many of his brothers and sisters. She represented the type of the devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave. or as a serpent goddess, depicted as a woman with claws and a skirt of snakes. Symbolizes the moon. |
| Coyolxuahqi |
| "Golden Bells". The earth and moon-goddess of the Aztecs. She is related to the four hundred star-deities Huitznauna, who are under her control. She possesses magical powers which with she can do great harm. Coyolxauhqui decapitated her own mother Coatlicue when she became pregnant in what her children deemed unseemly circumstances. Immediately the sun-god Huitzilopochtli sprang fully armed from Coatlicue's womb and slew Coyalxauhqui and many of her kin. According to one tradition, Huitzilopochtli tossed Coyalxauhqui's head into the sky where it became the moon. He hoped that his mother would find comfort at night by seeing the face of her daughter in the sky. |
| Ehecatl |
| In Aztec mythology, Ehecatl ("wind") is the god of the winds. He begins the movement of the sun and sweeps the high roads of the rain god with his breath. As another form of the great Quetzalcoatl he brings life to all that is lifeless. He brought love to mankind after he became involved with Mayahuel, a young woman. Their love was symbolized by a beautiful tree which grows on the place they arrived on earth. |
| Huehuetotl |
| Aztec god of fire, patron of warriors and kings. Depicted often as a crouched old man with a bowl of burning incense sitting on his head. |
| Huemac |
| Aztec god of earthquakes. |
| Huitzilopochtli |
| National god of the Aztecs, symbolizes storms, the sun, death, war, young men, warriors, soldiers, safe journeys. |
| Huixtocihuatl |
| An Aztec or pre-Aztec fertility goddess. She was connected particularly with salt and salt water. She was generally considered to have been the elder sister of Tlaloc |
| Hunab Ku |
| Aztec supreme god, impersonal to the followers. |