Mictlantecuhtli
Aztec/Mexica · deity · cosmogonic · deity
Skeletal lord of Mictlan and the dead; keeper of the ancestral bones.
Domains
- death
- underworld
Powers
- Rule the ninefold underworld of the dead
- Guard the bones of the dead generations
- Yield (and contest) the bones for the making of humankind
Epithets
- Tzontemoc
Relations
- interpretatio: Pitao Bezelao
- interpretatio: Lord of Demons
- spouse: Mictecacihuatl
- rival: Quetzalcoatl