Home›Aztec Deities›Veneration Status›Historically attested; no continuous cultBrowse ByHistorically attested; no continuous cultThis page groups deities by how actively they are still venerated today, from gods with a living cult to ones whose worship has died out entirely. Wikipedia defines veneration as "the practice of honoring people and articles of religious significance, for example, the veneration of saints and the veneration of relics." Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a deity that still receives offerings apart from one preserved only in historical study.FactsLearn MoreHistorically attested; no continuous cultSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsAttestationEra of AttestationWell-attestedSeveral figures are attested in central Mexican art long before the Mexica; the Mexica state cult is attested from the growth of Tenochtitlan; and the fullest textual record was compiled under colonial conditions between 1521 and 1590. 2Veneration TodayWell-attestedThe Mexica state cult ended with the conquest of 1521 and no continuous cult of these gods survives. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe gods of the Mexica and the wider Nahua world of Late Postclassic central Mexico. The pantheon is reconstructed from pre-conquest sculpture, temple offerings and divinatory codices together with a much larger body of text compiled after 1521 by Spanish friars working with Nahua informants. The colonial conditions of that record are part of the evidence, not a footnote to it. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedDeities 1Learn MoreThe gods of the Aztecs This group holds the deities of the Aztec (Mexica) civilisation of central Mexico, known from indigenous and Spanish colonial sources compiled around and after the conquest of 1521. Aztec religion set human life within a fragile cosmos of successive world-ages sustained, in the tradition's account, by ritual offering including human sacrifice. The browser will find the war and sun god Huitzilopochtli, patron of Tenochtitlan; the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl; the smoking-mirror god Tezcatlipoca; the rain-god Tlaloc; and earth and fertility deities such as Coatlicue and Xipe Totec. The entries flag that the principal sources were written under colonial conditions and must be read critically.Historically attested; no continuous cultFilter Results32 entriesPlanetary FaceAllChiron (1)Jupiter (1)Mars (1)Mercury (1)Moon (1)Neptune (1)Pluto (1)Sun (1)Venus (1)Child OfAllCoatlicue (2)HistoricityAllLegendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (1)Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being (31)TheologyAllPolytheistic: many gods (32)ArchetypeAllThe Caregiver (4)The Hero (1)The Innocent (1)The Lover (2)The Magician (4)The Rebel (1)The Ruler (2)The Sage (1)Era Attested Start YearAll100 (2)1000 (1)1200 (1)1325 (2)1400 (24)1450 (1)1469 (1)Worshipped InAllAztec Religion (23)Domain / FunctionAllAgriculture and harvest (4)Beauty (2)Childbirth (3)Craft, metalwork and smithing (1)Creation and cosmogony (2)Dance and theatre (2)Death (4)Disease and plague (1)Earth (4)Fate and time (1)Fertility and generation (3)Fortune and luck (2)Guide of the dead (1)Healing and medicine (2)Kingship and sovereignty (1)Love and desire (2)Magic and sorcery (1)Moon (3)Motherhood (1)Mountains (1)Music and poetry (2)Night and darkness (2)Purification (1)Rain and weather (1)Rivers, lakes and springs (1)Sea and Provision (1)Spring and renewal (2)Stars and planets (1)Storm and thunder (1)Sun (2)The hunt (1)The underworld (2)Trickster (1)Tutelary of a place or community (1)War and battle (2)Water (1)Weaving and textile craft (1)Wind (1)Wine and intoxication (5)Wisdom and counsel (1)Writing, scribes and learning (1)GenderAllAndrogynous / dual-gendered (1)Collective / plural, not a single figure (1)Female (14)Male (16)PantheonAllAztec (19)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 32Centzon TotochtinHistorically attested; no continuous cultChalchiuhtlicueHistorically attested; no continuous cultChalchiuhtotolinHistorically attested; no continuous cultChicomecoatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultCoatlicueHistorically attested; no continuous cultCoyolxauhquiHistorically attested; no continuous cultHuehuecoyotlHistorically attested; no continuous cultHuitzilopochtliHistorically attested; no continuous cultHuixtocihuatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultIlamatecuhtliHistorically attested; no continuous cultItzpapalotlHistorically attested; no continuous cultMacuilxochitlHistorically attested; no continuous cultMayahuelHistorically attested; no continuous cultMetztliHistorically attested; no continuous cultMictecacihuatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultMictlantecuhtliHistorically attested; no continuous cultMixcoatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultPatecatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultQuetzalcōātlHistorically attested; no continuous cultTecciztecatlHistorically attested; no continuous cultTezcatlipocaHistorically attested; no continuous cultTlalocHistorically attested; no continuous cultTlaltecuhtliHistorically attested; no continuous cultTlazolteotlHistorically attested; no continuous cultTociHistorically attested; no continuous cultTonacatecuhtliHistorically attested; no continuous cultTonatiuhHistorically attested; no continuous cultXilonenHistorically attested; no continuous cultXipe TotecHistorically attested; no continuous cultXochipilliHistorically attested; no continuous cultXochiquetzalHistorically attested; no continuous cultXolotlHistorically attested; no continuous cultSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005s.v. Aztec ReligionView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.