Monolith of Tlaltecuhtli discovered in Mexico City in 2006 (1502 CE)
Abode
Tlalticpac[1]
Symbol
Earth[1]
Gender
Female[1]
Region
Mesoamerica
Ethnic group
Aztec (Nahua)
Personal information
Parents
Created by the Tezcatlipocas[3] (Codex Zumarraga)
Siblings
None
Consort
Tlalcihuatl as female form (Codex Zumarraga)[1]
Children
• With Tlalcihuatl: Coatlicue, Chimalma, Xochitlicue (Codex Ríos)[2]
Tlatlecuhtli's head is shown flung back with a serpent tongue and a sacrificial knife between her teethAnnotations detailing the iconography of the Tlaltecuhtli Monolith (located at the Museum of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Mexico)
Tlaltecuhtli (Classical Nahuatl Tlāltēuctli, Nahuatl pronunciation:[t͡ɬaːl.teːkʷ.t͡ɬi]) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's dismembered body was the basis for the world in the Aztec creation story of the fifth and final cosmos.[4] In carvings, Tlaltecuhtli is often depicted as an anthropomorphic being with splayed arms and legs. Considered the source of all living things, she had to be kept sated by human sacrifices which would ensure the continued order of the world.
According to a source, in the creation of the Earth, the gods did not tire of admiring the liquid world, no oscillations, no movements, so Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl thought that the newly created world should be inhabited. And for this, they made Tlalcihuatl, 'Lady of the earth', come down from heaven, and Tlaltecuhtli, 'Lord of the earth', would be her consort.[1] Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl create the Earth from the body of Cipactli, a giant alligator self-created in the Omeyocan.
Tlaltecuhtli is known from several post-conquest manuscripts that surveyed Mexica mythology and belief systems, such as the Histoyre du méchique,[5] Florentine Codex, and Codex Bodley, both compiled in the sixteenth century.[6]
^ abcdefOtilia Meza (1981). El Mundo Mágico de los Dioses del Anáhuac (in Spanish). Editorial Universo. pp. 69, 70. ISBN 968-35-0093-5.
^Susan D. Gillespie (1989). Los Reyes Aztecas: La Construcción del Gobierno en la Historia Mexica (in Spanish). Siglo XXI Editores. p. 192. ISBN 968-23-1874-2.
^Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. p. 351. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^"Tlaltecuhtli". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
^Thevet, André (c. 1540). "IX". Histoyre du mechique (in French). pp. 31–34.
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