The birth of huitzilophochtli, patron god of the aztecs. Huitzilopochtli is the sun who is born from cuatlicue, the earth. The portentous patron god of the aztecs was the son of coatlicue, she of the skirt of serpents, a title of the mother goddess. You should be able to view any of the pdf documents and forms. The free acrobat reader is easy to download and can be freely distributed by. Huitzilopochtli, aztec sun and war god, one of the two principal deities of aztec religion, often represented in art as either a hummingbird or an eagle. Adobe portable document format pdf is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colours and graphics of any source document. Huitzilopochtli simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Huitzilopochtlis name is a cognate of the nahuatl words huitzilin, hummingbird, and opochtli, left. Coatlicue vivia en coatepec, donde hacia penitencia barriendo. Congratulations, your computer is equipped with a pdf portable document format reader. He was the god of the sun and war, considered the patron of the aztec capital tenochtitlan and associated with gold. In aztec mythology, huitzilopochtli, also spelled uitzilopochtli, 1 was a god of war, a sun god, and the patron of the city of tenochtitlan.
A new interpretation of the aztec statue called coatlicue, snakes herskirt. En su pie izquierdo tenia una sandalia adornada tambien con plumas. Huitzilopochtli, as depicted in the codex tellerianoremensis. The deity on the bottom lefthand side may be huitzilopochtli. This text has been the object of various forms of interpretation. According to some researchers, the myth has to do with an astral primeval confrontation.
Assuming the deity depicted is huitzilopochtli or at least contains identifying elements of the god, this image serves as a useful tool for comparison. Huitzilopochtli s siblings thought that their mother coatlicue had dishonored them with her mysterious pregnancy. Through this, huitzilopochtli replaced nanahuatzin, the solar god from the nahua legend. En su pie izquierdo tenia una sandalia adornada con plumas. However, huitzilopochtli sprang out of his mother and saved her. For generations they travelled in seven tribes called calpultin, one of which was especially favoured by huitzilopochtli. Huitzilopochtli around 1,000 years ago, the aztecs left their home of aztlan and followed their patron, huitzilopochtli, to a new land and way of life. You can restrict access to your pdfs, require a password to open the document or restrict printing and modifying your document with 128 bit aes encryption. One sister of huitzilopochtli, coyolxauhqui, encouraged her star sisters and brothers to kill their mother coatlicue. A question mark appears next to his name in boones translation of the codex. Huitzilopochtli or hummingbird of the south or blue hummingbird on the left was one of the most important deities in the aztec pantheon and for the mexica he was the supreme god. Huitzilopochtli was said to be in a constant struggle with the darkness and required nourishment in the form of sacrifices to ensure the sun would survive the cycle of 52 years, which was the basis of many mesoamerican myths. Pdf a new interpretation of the aztec statue called. Pdfcreator download for free, download pdf printer, pdf writer, pdf.
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