In Mexica religious and calendrical thought Huēhuecoyōtl is presented as an aged-coyote deity whose name combines huēhueh ('very old') and coyōtl ('coyote'). Sources portray him as a member of the Tezcatlipoca ("Smoky Mirror") family of gods and attribute to him a trickster role in myth: a benign prankster whose tricks sometimes backfired, a party-giver and patron of song and dance, and an agent who could create wars out of boredom. He inherited shapeshifting powers as part of the Tezcatlipoca group and occupied ritual time as ruler of the day sign cuetzpallin (lizard) and the fourth trecena Xochitl ('flower'), which located his influence within calendrical rites and consultations.
The supplied sources do not record a single canonical visual description or a consistent set of iconographic attributes. The deity's name and descriptions link him conceptually to the coyote archetype and to musical and festive contexts, but the provided materials do not supply detailed, authoritative iconographic features or costume elements.
Sources describe Huēhuecoyōtl as god of music, dance, mischief, song, deception, and uninhibited sexuality; as a trickster-figure he performs practical jokes on gods and humans (often backfiring) and could instigate wars for amusement. He is credited with storytelling and choral singing in parallels with North American Coyote tricksters, and as part of the Tezcatlipoca family he is said to possess shapeshifting powers. He is also recorded as a divine intercessor whom people appealed to when they had indications of evil fates from other gods in order to mitigate or reverse those fates. His calendrical rulership (cuetzpallin day sign and Xochitl trecena) situates his powers in ritual time.
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Ahuiateteo
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Atlacoya
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Atlahua
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Atlaua
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- [2]Huehuecoyotl - Wikidata. Wikidata entry Q1425920: Huehuecoyotl (summary).wiki
- [3]2020 Izcalli Abya Yala 2020 (archive — modern uses of name). Archive.org item referencing contemporary uses of the name 'Huehuecoyotl' in musical contexts.other
- [4]Cajas: Acústica Y Eléctrica (archive — modern uses of name). Archive.org item referencing contemporary uses of the name 'Huehuecoyotl' in musical contexts.other
- [5]Jeff Coffin Mu'tet Live at Smilefest Reunion on 2010-05-22 (archive — modern uses). Archive.org item referencing contemporary uses of the name 'Huehuecoyotl' in musical contexts.other