Chalchiuhtotolin

A god of plague in the shape of a turkey is not a joke: the turkey was the Mexica's only large domestic animal, kept in numbers in every household, and a bird disease going through the flock was a real disaster. Chalchiuhtotolin both sends the contamination and lifts it, which is the same logic that puts Pazuzu on a Mesopotamian amulet — the power that can do it to you is the one worth asking to stop. He is a face of Tezcatlipoca, whose whole nature is that he is never only one thing.

Domains

• disease

Relations

• counterpart of: TezcatlipocaAnother of the smoking mirror's faces, and the one that carries disease.Reference treatment of Chalchiuhtotolin as an aspect of Tezcatlipoca. (secondary)

Sources

• Chalchiuhtotolin, the Jewelled Turkey, is a Mexica god of pestilence and purification, an aspect of Tezcatlipoca and lord of the day-sign Tecpatl.: Reference treatments of Chalchiuhtotolin and of the aspects of Tezcatlipoca. (secondary)