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, 1 Characteristics of Myth 2 Aztec
3 Hun Hunahpu 4 Coatlicue
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Aztec Last Mesoamerican culture
Chicomoztoc Mesoamerican Cave of Origins
Soul of women dead in childbirth
Cihuatateo Causes mental illness, theft of children
Drags sun down from sky each night
Cipactli Maims Tezcatlipoca, cuts off his foot so he becomes "Smoking Mirror"
Impregnated by a feather; mother of Huitzilopochtli; murdered by 400
Coatlicue
sons and daughter
A Spanish conquistador who arrives to Mexico in 1519; mistakenly
Hernán Cortés
belived to be Quetzalcoatl by aztecs; conquers Tenochtitlan in 1521
"She Whose Face is Adorned with Bells"; step-sister attacks
Coyolxauhqui Huitzilopochtli but is defeated and killed (moon defeated by sun);
each sacrifice re-enacts her death
Cuauhxicalli "Eagle gourd bowl" holds extruded heart of (sacrifice) victim
Participates in xochiyaoyotl
Mock combat with ixiptla
Eagle Warrior Distributes meat of victims
Wears flayed pelt of victims
After death, lifts sun into sky
Ehecatl Wind god merged with Quetzalcoatl
Emergence myth Claims ancestors emerged from trees, caves, ect
Southern Hummingbird;Aztec warrior god; leads Aztecs on migration
Huizilopochtli
to Mexico City; yellow Tezcatlipoca; south noon
Father of Mayan Hero Twins, defeated in Xibalba; head put in calabash
Hun Hunahpu
tree grows and impregnated Xquic
Hunahpu One of Mayan Hero Twins; kills Vucub Caquix; defeats Lords of Xibalba
War captive dressed as a god and later sacrificed in Festival of Flayed
Ixiptla
Men