No cosmogonic or creation origin story for Atlahua is provided in the supplied sources. Attestations reported in the sources place knowledge of Atlahua in colonial-era ethnographic records (the Florentine Codex by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún is cited as containing an original image) and in modern reference summaries. The supplied material does not include a narrative of his birth, genealogy, or role in world-creation; it records instead later descriptions of his cultic presence and functional roles within Aztec religion.
The provided sources do not offer a detailed textual description of Atlahua's physical appearance. The only visual cue in the cited material is an attested pictorial representation: an image of Atlahua appears in Sahagún's Florentine Codex (Book II: The Ceremonies), which is referenced but not reproduced in the excerpts. The modern summary language also describes him as a "blue version of Tlaloc," which functions as an epithet or color-associated identification in the sources rather than a full iconographic description.
According to the supplied summaries, Atlahua is a water god characterized as a fisherman and an archer. Sources state he was a deity people prayed to when there were deaths in water; a cited historical example is invocation after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan when many corpses were said to lie in the lake. The supplied material frames these functional roles and intercessory contexts but does not enumerate additional powers (such as control of rain or storms) in the excerpts provided, nor does it supply ritual formulas or detailed magical capacities.
Acolnahuacatl
Acolnahuacatl is a name attested in central Mexican sources both as a historical Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and, in several modern compilations and trivia lists, as a minor chthonic or underworld-associated figure (often given the variant Acolmiztli). The evidence in the provided material is divided: the historical/genealogical reading is supported by standard reference entries, while the deity reading appears mainly in secondary online god-lists and quizzes and is not substantiated by detailed primary ritual or mythic texts in the supplied set.
Ahuiateteo
Ahuiateteo (Āhuiatēteoh; also rendered Mācuīltōnalequeh) are a quintet of Aztec deities associated with excess, pleasure, and the dangers that accompany over‑indulgence. They appear in calendrical and codical contexts, are invoked in divinatory practice, and are thematically linked to pleasures (feasting, drinking, gambling, sex, music) and the misfortunes that follow excess.
Ahuitzotl
Ahuitzotl is both the personal name of the eighth tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan (reigned ca. 1486–1502) known for military expansion and monumental rebuilding, and an onomastic term in Nahuatl for an aquatic animal/legendary creature (commonly glossed 'water thorny' and often associated with an otter or water opossum). The sources treat these registers—historical ruler and animal-name—as related but distinct uses of the same Nahuatl lexeme.
Ahuizotl
Ahuizotl is identified in the provided sources as an Aztec mythological creature; the same lexical form also names an historical Aztec emperor (Ahuitzotl). The available materials for this entry are limited to modern reference pages and a small set of artistic and popular-culture uses of the name, and do not contain primary indigenous mythic accounts or detailed ethnographic descriptions.
Akateko
Akateko (赤手児, lit. 'red child's hand') is a yōkai from Japanese folklore commonly told as a small, red, disembodied child's hand that appears from trees—especially the Japanese honey locust—and startles travelers; in some regional variants it is accompanied by a specter of a young woman or manifests as paired foot- or leg-like apparitions. Accounts vary between mostly harmless trickster apparition and a violent variant that attacks humans.
Alicante
Alicante is attested in available reference sources as the proper name of a mythological snake identified with Mexico. The surviving entries provide only the name and a categorical label (mythological snake) without accompanying narrative, attributes, or ritual context.
Amimitl (Opochtli)
A Mexica/Aztec deity associated with fishing, hunting, and water-related technologies; identified in sources with the better-documented figure Opochtli, "The Left," who functions as a specialized patron of implements and as a representative or attendant of the rain god Tlaloc. A temple in the Tira de la Peregrinación has been interpreted by a scholar as possibly belonging to a figure labeled Amimitl, but that identification is uncertain.
Atabey
Atabey is a principal Taíno ancestral mother-spirit (a zemi) associated with fresh water, fertility, and prime matter; she appears in early ethnohistorical transmissions with multiple names and manifestations ranging from nurturing mother to violent storm-mother.
Atlacoya
Atlacoya is named in modern compilations as a figure from Aztec tradition associated with drought; some modern databases alternately classify the name under water-deity categories. The supplied sources do not provide primary-codex citations, iconography, etymology, or detailed ritual texts.
Atlaua
Atlaua (also recorded as Atlahua, Ahtlahua, Atlahoa, Atlavâ) is an Aztec water deity described in the provided sources as a water god, fisherman and archer who was worshiped at multiple temples and was prayed to by the Aztecs when there were deaths in water.
Aztec Creator-Brothers
A quaternity of primordial divine offspring in Aztec (Mexica) myth who dwell in the highest heaven Ilhuicatl-Omeyocan as children of Omecihuatl and Ometecuhtli. Identified in sources with fourfold aspects (conventionally four Tezcatlipocas / colored aspects such as Black, Red, White, Blue) they act as cosmological agents who create living beings, take turns ruling as the Sun in successive world-ages, and participate in sacrificial acts that sustain cosmic cycles.
Cadejo
A dog‑shaped nocturnal spirit from Central American and adjacent Mexican popular belief, the cadejo appears on lonely roads as a protective or dangerous companion. Rooted in Mesoamerican ideas of animal companions and psychopomps, modern accounts present white (benevolent) and black (malevolent) variants with regionally variable features.
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- [6]United States v. Telehuactle- Atlahua (archive record — name occurrence). Archive.org court document metadata containing the name 'Atlahua' (unrelated to mythological content in supplied excerpts).other