Huitzilopochtli simple english wikipedia, the free. Her offspring, huitzilopochtli, learned of this plan while still in the womb, and before it was put into action, sprang from his mothers womb fully grown and fully armed and killed his sister. Through this, huitzilopochtli replaced nanahuatzin, the solar god from the nahua legend. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. Originally he was of little importance to the nahuas, but after the rise of the aztecs, tlacaelel reformed their religion and put huitzilopochtli at the same level as quetzalcoatl, tlaloc, and tezcatlipoca, making him a solar god. His sister, coyolxauhqui, tried to kill their mother because she became pregnant in a shameful way by a ball of feathers. For generations they travelled in seven tribes called calpultin, one of which was especially favoured by huitzilopochtli. Manchmal wird behauptet, er habe eine schwester, malinalxochi, gehabt. Sua madre era coatlicue, che secondo una versione del mito rimase incinta poggiando in grembo una sfera piumata caduta dal cielo secondo altre. In this image, four arrows protrude from the round shield. In the aztec religion, huitzilopochtli is a deity of war, sun, human sacrifice, and the patron of the. The legend of huitzilopochtli is recorded in the mexicayotl chronicle. The shield the god holds does not only relate to the birth of huitzilopochtli but is also part of the iconography identifying him as a war deity. Both the codex magliabechiano and sahaguan mention the importance of huitzilopochtlis weapons.
The portentous patron god of the aztecs was the son of coatlicue, she of the skirt of serpents, a title. Huitzilopochtli standing in front of a temple codex borbonicus, plate 34 huitzilopochtli huitzilopochtli, or the hummingbird on the left, was one of the most important gods to the aztecs, particularly the mexica of tenochtitlan. The birth of huitzilopochtli, patron god of the aztecs this is a teocuitatl, divine song, a sort of epic poem in which the birth of huitzilopochtli is recalled. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. The birth of huitzilopochtli, patron god of the aztecs pdf. Seine mutter war coatlicue, sein vater ein ball federn oder auch mixcoatl. Huitzilopochtli was the patron god of the mexica tribe. The birth of huitzilophochtli, patron god of the aztecs.
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