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The four Tezcatlipocas have an insane family dynamic just think about it:
-Huitzilopochtli is the serious kingly leader that tries just a smidge too hard to be funny
-Quetzalcoatl is the nice one that can probably turn on a dime if you piss him off bad enough
-Tezcatlipoca is the one who commits destruction of property for shits and giggles and he gets away with it all the time, because why wouldn't he he's a god
-Xipe Totec is the usually gentle tactical one that's also on the last strand of his sanity trying to keep his family intact (I feel bad for him if he thinks they'll ever be normal)
-And then there's Coyolxauhqui, Huitzilopochtli's sister that isn't part of the four Tezcatlipocas and whom we never talk about like ever.
#aztec mythology#aztec gods#quetzalcoatl#tezcatlipoca#huitzilopochtli#xipe totec#coyolxauhqui#Xipe Totec 24/6 (he gets a break on Sundays) “GUYS STFU AND STOP TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER”#How is Tezcatlipoca related to like#any of them#now that I think about it#I feel like they'd get along find but then there's HIM#He probably radiates angry/bad vibes but he isn't necessarily angry/bad#it's just because he's the god of strife he kinda emits that aura just to spark fights#anyway time to get back into my four tezcatlipocas ADDICTION
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Idk why this came to mind but
Any Huitzilopochtli-Coyolxauhqui sibling dynamic hcs?
I feel like everyone forgets Coyolxauhqui is Huitzilopochtli's sister...
HULLO. YES.
first of all. i invite you to peruse my Huitzilopochtli hc's here,, and if you are interested, also, shameless self-plug, but my visual hc's for Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui on the 2nd page (just a rough sketch ehehe but that's what i imagine!)
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Coyolxauhqui is the older sibling. as per the lore, Coyolxauhqui also has 400 younger brothers, the stars; the Centzonhuītznāhua.
i think, to understand Coyolxauhqui's fight with Huitzilopochtli, we have to imagine what life was like BEFORE Huitzilopochtli was born.
and i hc that Coyolxauhqui was actually quite lovely. i think she had one of those subtle smiles... not bursting out into laughter, but she'd smirk a lot and her younger brothers' antics.
i think she has razor sharp wits-- she's quick to give out witty retorts and they're GOOD.
being the older sibling of ANY family is a tough role to play-- many look up to you and you have to look after all your younger siblings. but now Coyolxauhqui has 400 YOUNGER SIBLINGS, all brothers--- i think life was pretty hectic for her.
she had to be stern and tough so that she could help her mother raise all of them.
there isn't any mention of who Coyolxauhqui's father is, but we must assume she had one since she was so furious at the method by which Huitzilopochtli was born (more on that later), but Coatlicue, her mother, is mentioned as being the wife of Mixcoatl, so i think it seems reasonable to hc him as Coyolxauhqui's father also.
now, Mixcoatl is the god of the hunt, and i think he may have taught Coyolxauhqui and her brothers a lot about fighting and hunting... i think they would all be quite good at it.
however, being the god of the hunt, i hc Mixcoatl to be away from home a lot of the time.... i think in those times, Coyolxauhqui would bond a lot with her mother, them being the only two women in the family.
as a result, i imagine Coyolxauhqui to have utmost admiration and respect for her mother. she is like; the role model of all time to Coyolxauhqui. she does everything correctly, the way the law writes things should be.
everything is PERFECT.
UNTIL. the feather-ball incident.
and that completely shatters Coyolxauhqui's image of a perfect mother. she sees it as the ultimate dishonour... in Coyolxauhqui's mind, this child conceived between the feathers and her mother is not even her sibling at all.... it's just an abomination. something which, as the eldest, it is her duty to be rid of.
that's how i think, Coyolxauhqui becomes cold and mean... fixated on only one thing; the destruction of her mother and her unholy child.
i have a soft spot for characters who uphold the law so deeply that they will even hurt their family if it means keeping their "honour".. and i think Coyolxauhqui is exactly that.
for Huitzilopochtli, his whole childhood is robbed from him due to Coyolxauhqui's attack.... he literally never gets the time to grow up and just be a kid the way Coyolxauhqui and her brothers had... i think he can be very awkward and unsociable a lot of the time because he never had siblings to play with, to share with, to laugh with... and i think that makes him grumpy most of the time. it's just one battle after the other with no break.
so in a way, Huitzilopochtli is actually sooo similar to Coyolxauhqui.
if not for the fighting, they would have been the perfect siblings.
as for Coatlicue. i think her heart simply breaks to see her children fighting. i don't hc her to hate Coyolxauhqui; she always will remain her child... there is a myth where Huitzilopochtli places Coyolxauhqui's head in the sky which becomes the moon so that Coatlicue might see her daughter every day. so that tells me she didn't hate her.
Huitzilopochtli also-- i think he would stop fighting if Coyolxauhqui did.... he only fights to survive.
as a final note; in the myths, Huitzilopochtli chops Coyolxauhqui's head off... but i like the idea that he cuts her head off, and then her head re-attaches or at least regrows, so that they are perpetually locked in a battle; a mirror of Ra's fight with Apep, if you get what im saying!
perhaps her brothers recover her head for her... in any case, i like the idea of Coyolxauhqui having a scar at the base of her neck from the number of times her head has been lopped off by Huitzilopochtli.
#mythological-mayhem#sorry this was not exactly happy!! but i cant imagine them having any good interactions :((#coyolxauhqui#huitzilopochtli#hc#asks
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The story of the 5 suns.
To celebrate indigenous peoples day, I wrote my own version of the 5 suns story. With my own alterations to try and fit both fate and my own lore. I do hope you guys enjoy it
Many years ago, the four great gods of Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, and Huitzilopochtli had wanted to create a world and people to inhabit this world. At first there was just water, and the horrid beast that lived in the water: Cipatli. Cipatli devoured anything and everything that entered the waters. So the gods discussed how to be rid of this beast.
"We must kill this beast!" Huitz demanded. The youngest of the siblings was very impatient, and demanded a solution fast. Though didn't seem to have any solution himself.
"They are a powerful beast, how do kill them?" Xipe Totec questioned.
"If we can get them into a vulnerable state, we could all attack them." Quetz, the smartest among them, suggested.
"Let us use some bait to tempt the beast. It thinks of nothing but eating, so a nice tempting meal should work fine." Tezca insisted on his siblings.
Xipe was hesitant at the idea. "What would be a good enough bait for the monster?" He questioned.
"Why not use your leg, Tezcatlipoca? The beast seems to especially love devouring gods, so you yourself should work fine. It is your idea after all." Quetzalcoatl suggested.
"Fine! I shall do so myself." The smoking god decided.
Tezcatlipoca floated himself above the near endless seas that Cipatli made their home, sticking his leg into the waters. The crocodilian monster raced towards the god, ready to devour him. Just as Cipatli leaped towards Tezca, he leaped away, but it had seemed that he was just too slow. Cipatli managed to bite off his leg.
"AAAAH!" The obsidian god yelled out in pain.
Just as Cipatli jumped out into the air to bite Tezca's leg, the other 3 leaped into action. All ganging up on the beast, tearing it apart and killing them.
Tezca gave himself an obsidian prosthetic leg to replace the one he lost. And then, the gods got started on reworking the monster's body into a landmass for the people.
Once the land was complete, the gods decided that they needed a sun to shine in the sky.
"I should be the sun." Tezcatlipoca boasted. "I'm the highest of us gods. No one is more worthy then me."
Huitzilopochtli felt enraged at his brother's boast. Mostly cause he saw himself as the highest.
Quetz was annoyed by her brother's boasts, but also thought the logistics weren't great. "We serve a very important role, brother. Should we not allow another god outside of us four? I think maybe Coyolxauhqui could work."
"No, I insist! I shall be a great sun!" And before any of the other gods could protest, Tezca flew up into the sky and took the form of a black sun.
The sun didn't shine as brightly as the gods had originally expected. The serpent goddess could add disappointment to the feelings she felt about her brother's actions.
"Brother, you're shining pretty dimly up there. Maybe you're not that cut out for it?" She suspected.
"I'm not dim at all! Maybe your eyes need to be checked?" He taunted.
Some of the other gods, who were originally off in other parts of the new world, observed the new Sun.
"Oh there's a nice new light in the sky. Tho, wish we could see more of the earth." Commented Huixtocihuatl, goddess of salt.
"You be quiet you!" Tezca demanded.
While Tezca fulfilled his duty as the sun, Quetz went onto making the humans that'd inhabit this world. The first go around, the people were very large. They didn't seem very intelligent either, but Quetz loved them regardless. The other gods didn't argue with her, tho did wish they were more intelligent.
After a very long time, the gods and people grew accustomed to the dim sun. But Quetz was still annoyed by her brother. After many years of him boasting, she grew tired and decided to act.
"Ok brother, I have had enough of you and your boasting Bull crap!" She yelled. Rising into the sky with her powerful wings, Quetzalcoatl raised up her Macuahuitl, and spiked her brother down onto the earth below!
"Why you piece of shit!" Tezca yelled out. In retaliation, he turned into a huge mighty jaguar and devoured all of the giant humans Quetz created. In shock and horror, Quetz attacked Tezca in response.
Eventually many other gods had to separate the two from their fighting. After this, Quetz took up the role of the sun. The other gods decided to create new humans. These humans were smaller than the originals, and seemed smarter too.
As the sun, Quetzalcoatl shined much brighter then Tezcatlipoca. The humans and gods seemed to appreciate this. Tho Tezca wasn't exactly a fan of this.
Over time, the humans seemed less appreciative of the gods. They slowly stopped praising them, stopped praying and stopped building temples. Many of the gods didn't appreciate this.
"Why have the humans stopped praising us?!" Questioned Huitzilopochtli. "how could they be so ungrateful!?"
"Maybe we aren't as cut out at human making as Quetzalcoatl was?" questioned the water god, Tlaloc.
"Maybe them being smaller is the problem?" The god Xochipilli thought.
Eventually, the humans even stopped being so intelligent. Running almost entirely on base instincts, acting the same as animals.
"I have had enough of these pathetic humans!" Tezca yelled out. "I shall give them a form fitting their actions."
Then the god turned all the humans into monkeys. Seeing this, Quetzalcoatl was outraged! In retaliation, she whipped up a powerful wind storm, destroying most everything on the surface of the earth. Blowing away almost all of the monkeys. Leaving only those who hid in caves or the like.
Quetzalcoatl had stopped being the new Sun, instead continuing her duty of being the one to create humanity.
The gods reconvened in Teotihuacan to decide who'd be a better sun.
"I think our duties are for too important to let them go to be the sun." Stated Xipe Totec. "We should have a god outside of us 4 fulfill the duty."
"Who would be able to do such a thing?" Questioned, Tezca.
"I think I know a very good candidate for such a duty." Huitz said confidently, as he raised himself up. "My good friend Tlaloc would be more than worthy of fulfilling such a duty."
"Maybe he would be a good fit?" Considered Quetzalcoatl. "We have other rain gods to help fill the void he'd leave while as sun."
"Tlaloc you say? His wife is very beautiful, but demanding. Are we sure this would not upset her?" Tezca commented.
"She shall be fine!" Huitz insisted. "Beside, I shall help make time for them to meet up on occasion."
And so the other gods agreed, albeit somewhat reluctantly, to have Tlaloc be the next sun. The rain god was honored, and more then ready to attempt to fulfill the duty.
As he was doing so, Quetzalcoatl went about to make new humans again. They were the same size as the previous ones, but already felt more appreciative of the gods then their predecessors.
While Tlaloc was busy with his duty as the sun, Tezcatlipoca saw an opportunity. He went to the now more lonely Xochiquetzal.
Xochi was surprised to see the dark god in her chambers. "Oh, Tezcatlipoca! What brings you here?" She asked.
"Well, I knew that since your husband was busy with his sun god duties, I figured you might be lonely without him around." Tezca explained to her.
Xochi then got a somewhat downtrodden look on her face. "You are correct. However it isn't just his sun duties that make me feel lonely." She expressed.
Tezca raised his eyebrow in curiosity. "Oh? What else could be troubling you?" He asked.
"Even before this, I have seen him talking so closely to my sister Chalchiuhtlicue. I don't know what they speak of, but sometimes he seems to forget about me when this happens. I feel he doesn't have the same love for me anymore." She explains.
"Oh?! How a fool like Tlaloc be so blind as to ignore such a beautiful wife?" He asks, while getting closer to Xochiquetzal. "He has hurt you so much, hasn't he?"
Xochiquetzal nodded her head.
"Would you like to hurt him back? I can help you." Tezca tells her.
The two then started to get intimate.
After some time, Tezca brought out Xochi into the open, in plain view of Tlaloc and the other gods. "Hey Tlaloc! Watch this!" He yelled out.
As Tlaloc and the other gods watched on, Tezcatlipoca and Xochiquetzal kissed passionately in front of everyone.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tlaloc yelled out.
Huitz, was also enraged. "BROTHER! You cannot take away his love like that! I command you stop this immediately!"
"I shall listen to no command from you, little brother!" Tezca responded back.
The new pair then ran off to continue their acts out of sight.
Now in a depressive state, Tlaloc had stopped the rain altogether. The earth started to dry up thanks to this.
With the plants, animals and people struggling to survive thanks to this, the gods struggled to think of a solution.
"I am going to rip his heart out of his chest myself!" Quetz yelled out about Tezca.
"That's not going to help the current situation, sister." Xipe stated.
Quetzalcoatl also held the youngest of siblings, Tlazolteotl, with her. When not creating and watching over humanity, she also helped care for the young goddess.
"You do not do that with someone's wife!" Huitz yelled. "He deserves retribution!" He demanded.
"We can consider that another time. This drought is a much bigger problem." Xipe tried to tell his siblings.
In the meantime, many humans would beg for Tlaloc to bring about rain. Most were persistent that with time he'd return the rain. However some had lost faith, and turned to other ways to help. One village decided to sacrifice one of their own to the underworld lord, Mictlantecuhtli. This female sacrifice would give her life to protect her family, and would eventually go on to become the lady of the dead, Mictecacihuatl.
Unfortunately, the begging from the majority of humans would grate on Tlaloc. He grew tired and decided enough was enough.
"Oh, you demand rain so much?! Fine! Then you shall have it!" He said, before bringing forth a rain of fire to destroy the land, and its people.
In the midst of this, he did not see Quetzalcoatl coming in, enraged at his actions. Just like with Tezca, she spiked him out of the sky and onto the scorched earth below with her Macuahuitl.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHY ARE YOU DESTROYING THE LAND?!" She questioned him.
"I have had enough of the humans constantly begging for rain. This is what they get." Tlaloc said back.
All this got him in return was a threatening look from Quetzalcoatl. But before she could continue any attacks, the other 3 great gods came in.
"It is clear we need a different sun god." Xipe Totec stated. "You made a good effort, but we shall be trying with someone else instead."
Tlaloc then decided to return to his realm of Tlalocan and forget about this. But before he could, Tezcatlipoca still had something to say.
"Before you leave. You should know, Xochiquetzal birthed your child. At least I assumed she's yours. It is far too early to be mine." He stated.
Surprised at this, Tlaloc went off to get the child. He may have lost the marriage with Xochiquetzal, but he refused to lose his child too. The child was the goddess of drought, fittingly, and was named Atlacoya.
In the scorched remains of the earth, Quetzalcoatl found the body of a burnt bird-like animal. She felt horrible for the creature, and taking pity on it, used her blood to bring it to life. This would turn the animal into the wind deity, Ehecatl.
Meanwhile, in Tezca's realm of Mictlampa, a lone human found himself in the God's presence after death. The human had cursed the sun in his last moments. Tezca had found respect in this, especially since he still harbored Ill will towards Tlaloc in regards to Xochiquetzal. So in gratitude, he had made the human into his second, Tepeyollotl.
After the dust was settled, the water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, Tlaloc's new wife, took the role of the sun next.
The goddess took to caring for the humans, giving them all the water they needed.
While Chalchiuhtlicue excelled at being the new Sun, Quetzalcoatl decided humanity was in need of a new food source. She had discovered an ant carrying a corn kernel, and so disguised herself as another ant to follow behind. Then Quetz eventually discovered a mountain of food, mostly maize.
"Oh so much food! I should take these back to the humans. They could use this food.
As time went on with the humans being so appreciative to Chalchiuhtlicue, Tezca started to become suspicious of her.
"Chalchiuhtlicue" Tezca called out.
The water goddess was suspicious of him, knowing what he had done to her husband. "What do you want?" She asked.
"Why do you spoil the humans so much? What did they do to earn this?" He questioned.
"There was no earning." Chal stated. "I just appreciate them and their prases. Humans like being treated well."
"Oh? Could it be that you're only doing this to take all their attention for yourself!?" He accused her.
Chalchiuhtlicue was so very hurt by this accusation. "H-how dare you!?" She yelled. Before crying an endless amount of tears. Flooding the earth, and ending humanity once more.
Quetzalcoatl had grown more and more impatient with her brother, Tezcatlipoca. "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, BROTHER! I will have no more of this!"
"Enough you say? Ha! You're too soft, birdie! Growing so attached to these humans. It only clouds your mind." Tezca said to her.
Quetzalcoatl, growing impatient, attacks him. Breaking off his prosthetic and attacking him with it. "No more! I will not allow you to end humanity anymore! Be gone to your Mictlampa! We do not need you to create the next world." She yelled.
"Fine, I'll leave. But I shall return, and you'll regret this." He stated.
Most of the gods went about trying to pick a new Sun. But Quetz, growing tired of making humans over and over, decided to do some recycling.
She went to the gates to Xibalba, and was greeted by her twin, Xolotl.
"Sister!" Xolotl exclaimed excitedly. "It's great to see you!" She said, hugging Quetz.
"It's great to see you too, Xolotl." Quetz responded in kind.
"What brings you here?" Xolotl asked.
"Well, I wish I could say it was just to visit, but I need to get in there." Quetz told her twin.
"Oh?" Xolotl said, cocking her head like a dog's. "Whatever for?"
"Our brother Tezca has caused the end of another earth, and I grow tired of making humans from scratch. So I have decided to just bring the bones of humans back from Xibalba to speed it up." She explains.
"Ooooh. I don't think that's a great idea" Xolotl says in response.
"Well that's where you come in!" Quetz says. "I need you to help me in, and to distract the lords of Xibalba so I can get the bones and get out." Quetz explained to her sister.
"Oh! That should work then!" Xolotl says.
Meanwhile, as this was happening. Coyolxauhqui saw that this time most of the gods were more preoccupied then others and saw this as an opportunity. "Too long have you angered us, mother." Coyo says to herself. "Why does he get so much of your love?! And we get almost nothing?!"
Her sister, Malinalxochitl grew worried. "Coyo, it is not wise to just attack mother. You know Huitzilopochtli will retaliate in kind."
"I DO NOT CARE!" Coyo yelled out. "He is just a spoiled brat! He is not the all powerful being he claims himself to be, I shall destroy both him and mother!"
Back in Xibalba, Xolotl was successfully distracting Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl. Giving Quetz the chance to steal the bones.
As she picked up the bones, a small figure revealed herself to Quetz. "Oh! You must be the princess." Quetz said, addressing the young goddess.
The princess of Xibalba, Nexoxcho, stood in front of Quetzalcoatl. She was still young and so was also still very small.
"Young lady. If you could just go back and return to your chambers, that'd be apprec-"
"MOTHER! FATHER! THE BONES ARE BEING STOLEN!" The princess screamed out to her parents.
Quetz could only make an annoyed face in response to this.
She and Xolotl found themselves in front of the queen and king of Xibalba.
The skeletal figure of Mictlantecuhtli was very annoyed by this development. "What is the meaning of this?!"
"I need to recreate humans again, and I have grown tired of creating them from scratch, so I decided to recycle some bones." Quetz answered honestly.
The queen whispered in her husband's ear. He seemed to roll his eyes in response to what she said, but still agreed. "Ok, we shall give you the bones. But only if you play our shell, while dancing in a circle 3 times." The king said.
"Y'know, weird things like this are part of why the hero twins killed your predecessors, Mictlantecuhtli." Xolotl said.
"Silence! I am attempting to be reasonable." He explained.
Meanwhile, back in the heavens, the primordial goddess Coatlicue found herself besieged by one of her daughters.
"So this is the thanks I get for raising you?" She states.
"Raising us?!" Coyo yells in frustration. "That's what you call neglecting us, and giving all your favor to that brat?!"
"Enough sister!" Malinal pleaded. "She is not worth the anger."
"No! I shall have the blood that's owed to me" Coyolxauhqui stated
And in an instant, a slash went through Coatlicue's neck. Her head had fallen to the ground.
"Yes!" Coyo yelled in response.
But before she could Celebrate, two enormous snake heads emerge from the stump. "YOU FOOLISH GIRL!" The heads yelled in unison.
Before long, Coyo found herself sliced in pieces. The plasma hot flames of Xiuhcoatl slicing her flesh like butter.
"Sister!" Malinal said in horror.
Huitz was then seen floating the pieces of his elder sister. "What an ungrateful sister. To dare to cut off mother's hea-"
But before he could finish, the pieces of Coyolxauhqui found themselves floating back up together. "What is this?!" He yells out in anger.
"I AM NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!" The floating head of Coyolxauhqui screams.
Back in the underworld, Quetzalcoatl found the shell that Mictlantecuhtli gave her lacked holes. So to remedy this, she dug deep into the ground and grabbed earthworms to drill holes into it. She then called upon bees to make the sound.
When the King and Queen saw she managed to complete the task, she was sent on her way with the bones. But the princess still wanted to pay 1 more trick.
"Dont think you're getting away without one more 'gift' serpent" Nexo said.
Having her mother's attendants dig a pit ahead of Quetz, and placing a Quail at the edge. Quetz tripped and fell into the pit. Causing the bones to snap in the fall.
"Oh no!" Quetz said!
"Wait! Maybe we can still save them." Xolotl said.
They had gathered them back up and then spilling blood upon them, new humans were born.
Meanwhile, in Teotihuacan, Xipe Totec had two gods ready to try and become the sun. They were to throw themselves into a great pyre. However before they could start, Huitzilopochtli, being chased behind by Coyolxauhqui both fell into the pyres.
"What is happening?!" Xipe yelled.
"BROTHER! GIVE ME YOUR HEAD!" Coyolxauhqui said, now burning with ashy flames.
The eagle and jaguar for the ceremony, not realizing what went wrong, lifted both gods into the sky. There, they became the sun and moon. With their constant movement fueled by the chase for vengeance Coyolxauhqui desired.
And that is how the world was created.
Hope you guys liked that story! I don't do this stuff often, but it's still very fun. Lemme know if you want anymore myth retelling.
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Just a redraw of Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui, but this time I get inspired by Caravaggio.
The first draw (left) and Caravaggio's art (right).
#huitzilopochtli#coyolxauhqui#mexican#mexica#mexican artist#mexican mythology#mythology#aztecinspired#aztec#azteca#aztec mythology#aztec gods#redraw#cartoon art#drawing#fanart#artists on tumblr
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Coyolxauhqui's favorite ice cream? I know she tried to kill her brother and got decapitated and all that but she probably still likes ice cream...
Hmmmm she strikes me as a chocolate chip enjoyer
And as a bonus:
For popsicles she likes grape, popsicles prob easier to eat even when you are a decapitated head in the void idk tho
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In one week the Mexica year ends, and by cosmic coincidence, the year that ends is that of the rabbit (the year 10 rabbit) so we have one week left in which the Chinese year of the rabbit and the Mexica year of the rabbit coincide. So I invite you to post things about Aztec rabbits using #Xiuitl_Tochtli (year of the rabbit) or #End_of_the_year_of_the_aztec_rabbit.
Here is something from me, the Coyolxauhqui (the Aztec goddess of the moon) with the lunar rabbits... (uncensored version on my patreon )
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Una vieja moneda mexicana que mostraba a #Coyolxauhqui desm*mbrada por su hermano #Huitzilopochtli por defender a su madre...
Coyolxauhqui desm*mbrada representa a la luna y sus fases.
Huitzlopochtli, señor de la guerra representa al sol, que con sus rayos desaparece tanto a la luna como a las estrellas mientras avanza por el firmamento.
¿Que te parece?
Aquellas monedas si contaban historias.
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Quetzalcoatl🐍, Xólotl🐕, Huitzilopochtli🐦 & Coyolxauhqui🌜. The precious snake, the evening star, the left-handed hummingbird and the one adorned with bells.
#art#ilustration#artists on tumblr#original art#mesoamerica#prehispanic#aztec gods#aztec mythology#character design#quetzalcoatl#xolotl#huitzilopochtli#coyolxauhqui
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Aztec moon meeple..
Woohoo I should write in my sketchbook more but also writing is pain
#Aztec jumpscare I've been fixating since July !!!!#With a break in the middle for Disney stuff that is wagh#Fellow Aztec enthusiasts please don't come after me for questionable cultural accuracy#traditional art#sketches#fanart#aztec mythology#tecciztecatl#coyolxauhqui
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MODERN DAY GODS
So, it's been a while since I've done something major.
I've been working on a story for almost three years now, something I've been really passionate about, combining my experiences as a Mexican-American, discovering my identity, my life in Mexico, and Mexican culture, both pre-columbian and modern day. It's still cooking, honestly, but I wanted to share a little bit of some of the stuff I've been working on, and to do that, I thought I'd start with one of my favorite parts of working on said project: Reinterpreting and analyzing Mesoamerican Gods.
To give the briefest summary: I've redesign seven Aztec gods that are a big part to my upcoming story, but also to put my own spin on what I would think would change if we could see these gods again in modern day. I'm gonna include notes as to what exactly I've chosen to change about said deities and what led to specific choices as well.
This has taken a lot of time and frankly, a bit of my sanity. But, I really think the designs I've come up with are an amazing reinterpreting of these gods in a new context. I hope you guys will think so too.
Consider this a masterpost as I link back more and more gods as I post them.
LINKS:
God 1 | RAIN: Tlaloc
God 2 | SUN: Huitzilopochtli
God 3 | DEATH: Mictlantecuhtli
God 4 | THE DEAD: Mictecacihuatl
God 5 | KNOWLEDGE: Quetzalcoatl
God 6 | MOON: Coyolxauhqui
God 7 | EARTH: Coatlicue
Oh, and a very gigantic shout out to @lonely-space-egg and @thebestdodogama for bearing with my nonsense for so many years. I can't believe I finally get to post about the project I've annoyed you with for so much.
#Modern Day Gods#my art#character design#aztecs#aztec mythology#tlaloc#huitzilopochtli#mictlantecuhtli#mictecacihuatl#quetzalcoatl#coyolxauhqui#coatlicue#i have been busting my ass to get these done lmao#combining character design and mesoamerican history#how do i do it
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Coyolxauhqui
Coyolxauhqui (pron. Koy-ol-shauw-kee) diosa azteca de la luna o la vía láctea quien fue masacrada por su hermano Huitzilopochtli, el dios de la guerra, en la mitología azteca.
La leyenda es asi:
Cuenta la leyenda Azteca la historia sobre Coatlicue , la diosa de la vida y la muerte y madre de los Cuatrocientos Surianos , Centzon Huitznáhuac, dioses de las Estrellas del Sur y de la diosa Coyolxauhqui , la cual regia a sus hermanos. Coatlicue vivía en Coatepec , donde hacía penitencia barriendo. Un día mientras barría, cayó del cielo una hermosa pluma, que ella recogió y colocó en su seno. Al terminar de barrer buscó la pluma que había guardado y al no encontrarla se dió cuenta que estaba embarazada. Los Cuatrocientos Surianos al enterarse que su madre estaba embarazada, enfurecieron.Su hermana Coyolxauhqui , la convenció que quizás matarla por que los había deshonrado. Coatlicue estaba muy asustada y triste, pero su hijo Huitzilopochtli , que estaba en su seno, le dijo que no temiera porque él la iba a proteger. Ella se sintió consolada y su corazón se tranquilizó.
Mientras tanto, Coyolxauhqui y sus hermanos planeaban la venganza contra su madre. Cuahuitlicac , uno de los hermanos, fue en busca de su madre y Huitzilopochtli para comunicarles lo que planeaban. Los Cuatrocientos Surianos guiados por Coyolxauhqui , se encaminaron entonces hacia la montaña, decidieron a matar a su madre, pero nuevamente Cuahuitlicac fue a informales que los guerreros ya estaban en camino.
En ese momento nació Huitzilopochtli , quien se convirtió instantáneamente en adulto; tomó un escudo de plumas de águila, un lanza dardos y unos dardos de turquesa.Huitzilopochtli pintó sus brazos y piernas de azul, dibujó su rostro con franjas diagonales, sobre su cabeza colocó plumas y en el pié derecho se colocó una sandalia cubierta de plumas.Controlando a una serpiente, exactamente herir a su hermana Coyolxauhqui y después le cortó la cabeza, su cuerpo rodó y fue cayendo en pedazos totalmente desmembrada.
Huitzilopochtli furioso, arrojó su cabeza al cielo y así se convirtió en la luna.
Este siguió persiguiendo a los Cuatrocientos Surianos , desde la cima de Coatépetl hasta el pie de la montaña sin que ellos tuvieran oportunidad de defenderse.Muchos rogaban por su perdón, pero solo unos pocos podrían escapar de su ira y bibliotecarse así de una muerte terrible.Los que lograron escapar se dirigieron al sur en donde se dispararon en estrellas.
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Solar eclipse today guys
Coyolxauhqui was a little extra in her quest to kill her brother today :DD
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The Sun and The Moon.
#Painting#chang’e#sun maiden#huitzilopochtli#coatlicue#coyolxauhqui#quetzalcoatl#xalotl#mawu-lisa#chinese mythology#aztec mythology#russian mythology#west coast of Africa mythology
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Day 822
Coyolxauhqui returns!
(Warning, body horror)
Here comes the vengeful goddess of the moon!
Got this amazing commission back from @neonjawbone of my fanservant Coyolxauhqui!
In what's essentially meant to be a final ascension, Coyo is now more then ready to rip her enemies apart, and especially seek vengeance against her brother, Huitzilopochtli.
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Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui's head.
#coyolxauhqui#huitzilopochtli#mexica#aztec#aztecinspired#fanart#drawing#cartoon art#mexican#artists on tumblr#character design
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