 Statuette of Mictlantecuhtli See also: Mictlantecuhtli (disambiguation) Statuette of Mictlantecuhtli, in the British Museum, London Image by ChrisO File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Statuette of Mictlantecuhtli, in the British Museum, London Image by ChrisO File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
In Aztec mythology, Mictlantecuhtli ("lord of Mictlan") is the god of the dead and King of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), the lowest section of the underworld. The Aztec civilization recognized many gods and supernatural creatures. ...
In Aztec mythology, Mictlan was the lowest (ninth) level of the underworld, located far to the north. ...
He is depicted as a blood-spattered skeleton or a person wearing a toothy skull. His headdress is decorated with owl feathers and paper banners, and he wears a necklace of human eyeballs.
His wife is Mictecacihuatl, and together they dwell in a windowless house in Mictlan and rule over the dead. Mictlanteculhtli is associated with spiders, owls, bats, the eleventh hour, and the northern compass direction. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl was the Queen of Mictlan, the underworld, and wife of Mictlantecuhtli. ...
For other uses, see Spider (disambiguation). ...
Families Strigidae Tytonidae An owl is a member of any of some 220+ (222 currently known) species of solitary, mainly nocturnal birds of prey in the order Strigiformes. ...
Suborders Megachiroptera Microchiroptera See text for families. ...
The twin gods Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl stole the bones of the previous generation of gods from Mictlanteculhtli. The death god pursued, and although they escaped, they dropped the bones, which shattered and became the various races of mortals. Statue of Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl (feathered snake or plumed serpent; in Nahuatl: Ketsalkoatl; in Spanish: Quetzalcóatl) is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations and also the name given to some Toltec rulers...
In Aztec mythology, (and among the Toltecs), Xolotl was the god of lightning and the one who aided the dead on their journey to Mictlan. ...
See also In Maya mythology, Ah Puch was the God of Death and King of Mitnal, the underworld, which was the worst of all nine Mexicans and Central Americans believe that an owls screeches signify imminent death. ...
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