Ixtlilton
Aztec/Mexica · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Ixtlilton is the doctor in a family of entertainers, which in Mexica terms is not a change of subject: he is god of dancing and of medicine at once, and his cure is a dark water — the black his name refers to — kept in jars at his shrine and given to children who would not stop crying or would not eat. Between the three brothers they cover pleasure, the price of pleasure, and the remedy, which is a tidier account of a night out than most pantheons manage.
Domains
- healing
- dance
Relations
- sibling: XochipilliBrother of the flower prince.Reference treatment naming Ixtlilton as Xochipilli's brother. (secondary)
- sibling: MacuilxochitlBrother of Macuilxochitl.Reference treatment naming the three as brothers. (secondary)
Sources
- Ixtlilton is the Mexica god of health, medicine, dancing and festivals, brother of Xochipilli and Macuilxochitl, whose shrine kept a black water given to sick children.: Reference treatments of Ixtlilton, his spheres and his brothers. (secondary)