Tlacolotl

The provided sources do not supply a mythic origin story for Tlacolotl. In the available material Tlacolotl appears as a culturally meaningful term—the Nahuatl word for an owl and a symbol tied to darkness, sorcery, and misfortune—rather than as a figure with a documented cosmogonic origin. Secondary summaries variably personify the term as a representation or even as a 'god of evil,' but the excerpts do not include primary myth narratives or a clear traditional origin account.

Sources consistently associate Tlacolotl with the owl, and one modern summary specifically calls it a 'horned owl.' Beyond identification with the bird, the excerpts do not provide consistent anthropomorphic or iconographic descriptions; Tlacolotl is presented in the materials chiefly as an owl-sign or symbol rather than as a standardized humanoid deity image.

The cited texts attribute symbolic functions rather than concrete supernatural abilities. Tlacolotl is associated with darkness, sorcery, misfortune, and the role of omen-bearing or warning sign (as owls were read by post‑Conquest chroniclers). One modern encyclopedia summary frames Tlacolotl as 'the god of evil' and of 'dark places where evil plans are made,' but the available sources do not describe specific powers such as shapeshifting, possession, or elemental control.