Xiuhtecuhtli

Aztec/Mexica · deity · cosmogonic · deity

Aged fire god at the center of the cosmos; lord of the year and the New Fire ceremony.

Domains

fire
time and the year
the hearth and center

Powers

Kindle and govern household and temple fire
Renew the world at the New Fire ceremony

Epithets

Huēhuetēōtl
in tota in tonān

Relations

interpretatio: Old Fire-and-Death God

Sources

Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Books I, VI, VII

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