Huehuecoyotl shares many characteristics with the trickster Coyote of the North American tribes, including storytelling and choral singing. In both cultures he is a prankster, whose tricks are often played on other gods but frequently backfire and cause more trouble for himself that the intended victims. A great party-giver, he also was alleged to foment wars between humans to relieve his boredom. He is a part of the Tezcatlipoca family of the Mexica gods, and has their shapeshifting powers. Those who had indications of evil fates from the gods would sometimes appeal to Huehuecoyotl to mitigate or reverse their fate. Canis latrans, the animal on which the myth is based Coyote is a mythological figure common to many Native American cultures, based on the coyote animal. ... In Nahuatl mythology, Tezcatlipoca (smoking mirror) was the god of the night, the north and temptation. ... Shapeshifting, transformation , transmogrification or morphing is a change in the form or shape of a person, especially: a change from human form to animal form and vice versa a change in appearance from one person to another Shapeshifting is not considered scientifically or medically possible for humans (and animal shapeshifting...
The fourth day of the thirteen day Mexican week belonged to Huehuecoytol.
He is often associated with Xolotl. 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. ...
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Karl Young, The Continuum of Life in Codex Borbonicus
Huehuecoyotl is surrounded by ancient trails and national forest, located in central Mexico, about 50 miles south of Mexico City.
Located in the volcano belt of central Mexico, Huehuecoyotl was founded over 20 years ago by a diverse international group of artists and musicians, political activists and ecologists.
Giovanni is a founding member of Huehuecoyotl, a board member of the Global Ecovillage Network since 2003 and council member of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas since 1999.
Located in the volcano belt of central Mexico, Huehuecoyotl was founded in 1982 by a diverse international group of nomadic artists and musicians, political activists and ecologists who had spent 10 years traveling all over the world.
Huehuecoyotl has been a teaching and demonstration center for the use of appropriate technology, consensus facilitation, the arts and crafts, permaculture, eco-construction, native studies, networking, ecotourism, and visionary leadership.
Huehuecoyotl is located at 2100 m (7000 ft) elevation so it has a cooler climate than most of Mexico.
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