Aztec Mythology


Ah Kinchil
In
Maya mythology, Ah Kinchil is the sun god.

Ah Puch
In
Maya mythology, Ah Puch is the god of death.

Ahau Chamahez
In
Maya mythology, Ahau Chamahez was one of two gods of medicine.

Ahmakiq
In
Maya mythology, Ahmakiq is a god of agriculture. He locks up the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.

Akhushtal
In
Maya mythology, Akhushtal is the goddess of childbirth.

Bacabs
In
Maya mythology, the bacabs are the canopic gods. They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens.

Centeotl
In
Aztec mythology, Centeotl was the corn god. He was a son of Tlazolteotl and the husband of Xochiquetzal.

Chalchiuhtlicue
In
Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue was the goddess of running water. She was the sister of Tlaloc.

Chantico
In
Aztec mythology, Chantico was the goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes.

Chicomecoatl
In
Aztec mythology, Chicomecoatl was the goddess of corn and fertility.

Cihuacoatl
In
Aztec mythology, Cihuacoatl was a goddess whose roaring signalled war.

Cit Bolon Tum
In
Maya mythology, Cit Bolon Tum was a god of medicine.

Ehecatl
In
Aztec mythology, Ehecatl was the god of wind.

Ekahau
In
Maya mythology, Ekahau is the god of travellers and merchants.

Huitzilopochtli
In
Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli was the son of Coatlicue and a god of war and the sun.

Huixtocihuatl
In
Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl is the goddess of salt.

Itzpapalotl
In
Aztec mythology, Itzpapalotl is a goddess of agriculture.

Ix Chel
In
Maya mythology, Ix Chel is the goddess of the moon.

Ixtab
In
Maya mythology, Ixtab is the goddess of the hanged. She receives their souls into paradise.

Ixtlilton
In
Aztec mythology, Ixtlilton was the god of healing, feasting and games.

Kan-u-Uayeyab
In
Maya mythology, Kan-u-Uayeyab was the god who guarded cities.

Kinich Kakmo
In
Maya mythology, Kinich Kakmo is the sun god symbolised by the Macaw.

Kisin
In
Maya mythology, Kisin is the evil earthquake spirit. He lives beneath the earth in a purgatory where all souls except those of soldiers killed in battle and women who died in childbirth spend some time. Suicides are doomed to his realm for eternity.

Kukucan
In
Maya mythology, Kukucan is the wind god.

Macuilxochitl
In
Aztec mythology, Macuilxochitl was the god of music and dance.

Mayahuel
In
Aztec mythology, Mayahuel was a goddess of maguey.

Metztli
In
Aztec mythology, Metztli was the moon god.

Mictlan
In
Aztec mythology, Mictlan was the underworld. It was the home of all the dead except warriors and women who died in labour.

Mictlantecuhtli
In
Aztec mythology, Mictlantecuhtli was the god of Mictlan and the dead.

Mitnal
In
Maya mythology, Mitnal was the underworld hell where the wicked were tortured.

Nacon
In
Maya mythology, Nacon was the god of war.

Ometecuhtli
In
Aztec mythology, Ometecuhtli was the god of duality.

Patecatl
In
Aztec mythology, Patecatl was the god of medicine.

Paynal
In
Aztec mythology, Paynal was the messenger to Huitzilopochtli.

Quetzalcoati
In
Aztec and Toltec mythology, Quetzalcoati was the feathered serpant god.

Quetzalcoatl
In ancient Mexican mythology, Quetzalcoatl was the god of the
air. He presided over commerce, and was said to have predicted the coming of the Spaniards.

Teoyaomqui
In
Aztec mythology, Teoyaomqui is the god of dead warriors.

Tlaloc
In
Aztec mythology, Tlaloc is the great rain and fertility god. He lived at Tlalocan with the corn goddesses.

Tlalocan
In
Aztec mythology, Tlalocan was the paradise of Tlaloc. It was where the souls of those killed by lightning, dropsy, skin diseases and those sacrificed to Tlaloc went.

Tlazolteotl
In
Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl was the goddess of licentiousness.

Tonacatecuhtli
In
Aztec mythology, Tonacatecuhtli was the creator and provider of food.

Tonatiuh
In
Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh was a sun-god, the eagle and heavenly warrior.

Xilonen
In
Aztec mythology, Xilonen was the goddess of young maize. She was a wife of Tezcatlipoca.

Xipe Totec
In
Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec was the god of seedtime.

Xochipilli
In
Aztec mythology, Xochipilli was the god of feasting and young maize.

Yacatecuhtli
In
Aztec mythology, Yacatecuhtli was the god of merchant adventurers.

Yaxche
In
Maya mythology, Yaxche is the tree of heaven under which good souls rejoice.

Yum Kaax
In
Maya mythology, Yum Kaax is the maize god.