Tlaltecuhtli

Aztec/Mexica · deity · cosmogonic · deity

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

Relations

killed by: Quetzalcoatl
killed by: Tezcatlipoca

Sources

Histoyre du Mechique; Leyenda de los Soles

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