Tlaltecuhtli
Aztec/Mexica · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Toad-like earth deity whose sundered body became the world in the fifth-sun creation.
Domains
- earth
- fertility and devouring
Powers
- Form earth and sky from a dismembered body
- Swallow sun, blood and the corpses of the dead
- Devour blood and the dead to renew the earth
Epithets
- Tlāltēuctli Earth LordSmarthistory, Monolith of Tlaltecuhtli (Earth Lord) (secondary)
Relations
- killed by: QuetzalcoatlTorn apart; her sundered body became earth and sky, demanding hearts and blood thereafter.Histoyre du Mechique (primary)
- killed by: TezcatlipocaTorn apart by the two gods in serpent form in the fifth-sun creation.Histoyre du Mechique (primary)
Sources
- existence: Histoyre du Mechique; Leyenda de los Soles (primary)