Wikipedia's article on the Ahuiateteo, the Aztec deities of excess associated with the eighteenth trecena of the tonalpohualli calendar, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for standard, uncontested facts such as their number and calendrical association, and less reliable for interpretive claims about their precise ritual significance, which a dedicated study of Aztec calendrical religion would need to settle. Use it for basic identification; a claim resting on deeper iconographic or ritual interpretation needs a specialist source.
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A collaboratively edited encyclopedia entry, used here only to corroborate the five-member naming of the Ahuiateteo group already described generally in the atlas's academic sources on Aztec religion, not as the primary source for any claim. NotesStates the Ahuiateteo are five gods embodying the dangers of excess in eating, drinking and pleasure generally, each tied to a specific day in the ritual calendar carrying the numeral five, a number associated with excess: Macuilxochitl (Five Flower, the foremost), Macuilcuetzpalin (Five Lizard), Macuilcozcacuauhtli (Five Vulture), Macuiltochtli (Five Rabbit) and Macuilmalinalli (Five Grass).
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahuiateteo
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Deities, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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