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

Sources

Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Books I, III; Leyenda de los Soles

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