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