The Centzon Tōtōchtin are attested in Aztec codical and colonial sources as a multitudinous group of pulque deities situated within the pulque (octli) cult rather than as the product of a single origin myth. Scholarship cited in modern summaries (e.g., Taube; García-Arce and Castro-Muñoz as reported in secondary summaries) treats them as part of an interconnected ritual and cosmological system that links the maguey plant and its goddess Mayahuel, calendar symbolism (rabbit day-sign associations), nocturnal/lunar domains, and the institutional regulation of pulque consumption recorded in codices and colonial accounts.
Iconographically the Centzon Tōtōchtin appear through rabbit imagery in multiple modes: naturalistic rabbits, rabbit-headed figures, and humans wearing rabbit costumes. Sources note both multitudinous representation (the numerical phrase 'four hundred' signaling a large or many-bodied collective) and individual named representatives such as Ome Tochtli ('Two Rabbit') that can stand in generically for the group. Pulque imagery in manuscripts (e.g., Codex Borbonicus scenes discussed in scholarship) combines rabbit signs with lunar or starry-night motifs around pulque vessels and the maguey goddess Mayahuel, so depictions often integrate rabbit forms with nocturnal and lunar iconography.
Within Aztec religious practice the Centzon Tōtōchtin are associated with the preparation, ritual distribution, and sanctioned uses of pulque and with the symbolic and ritual dimensions of intoxication. Scholarship frames them as embodying both the sacralized uses of pulque (controlled, calendrically and socially regulated drinking within ceremonies) and its dangerous aspects when consumed outside prescribed rules. Secondary treatments also link them in visual and ritual art to night and lunar signs and, in some analyses, to broader themes such as warfare and sacrifice (per Taube as cited in modern summaries), indicating their role inside larger cosmological and ritual networks rather than as isolated household spirits.
Weaknesses
- conditionsocial and ritual regulation (restricted access, quantities, and ceremonial dates)
Wards
- ritualinstitutional regulation of pulque use (restricting consumption to specified groups, quantities, and ceremonial dates)
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
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Ahuitzotl
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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
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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
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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.
Atlahua
Atlahua is an Aztec water-associated deity attested in colonial and modern summaries as a water god described as a fisherman and archer, identified in sources as a blue/aspectual form of Tlaloc and invoked in contexts of deaths in water.
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.
Community Record
- [1]Centzon Tōtōchtin. Wikipedia entry 'Centzon Tōtōchtin' (summary of scholarly literature, including Taube and García-Arce & Castro-Muñoz)wiki
- [2]Centzon Totochtin (Wikidata). Wikidata item Q596190 for Centzon Totochtinother
- [3]Tequila plata : Centzon Totochtin (poster reference). Archive.org item referencing modern cultural reuse of the name 'Centzon Totochtin'other
- [4]Centzon Totochtin Favorites (archive item). Archive.org item listing modern references to the name 'Centzon Totochtin'other