In the Aztec culture, a tecpatl was a flint or obsidian knife with a lanceolate figure and double-edged blade, with elongated ends. Both ends could be...

and a cycle or "Tie of the Years", and the New Fire Ceremony, day-sign 1 Tecpatl of the year 2 Acatl, corresponding to the date February 22. A correlation...

clawed hands, and his tongue is represented by a stone sacrificial knife (Tecpatl). The four squares that surround the central deity represent the four previous...

births she had given birth to a flint, which in their language they call tecpatl, from which the other gods were amazed and frightened, their children agreed...

Ilancueye is nothing more than the personification of the Earth. In Ce Tecpatl, after the Creation of the Fifth Sun in Teotihuacan, Camaxtle, one of the...

overcome their fate. In the tonalpohualli, Chalchihuihtotolin rules over day Tecpatl (Stone Knife) and over trecena 1-Atl (Water). The preceding thirteen days...

Mesoamerica Ethnic group Aztec (Nahoa) Genealogy Parents Omecihuatl (Emerged by Tecpatl) Siblings the Nauhtzonteteo (1,600 gods) Children With Piltzintecuhtli:...

Mesoamerica Ethnic group Aztec (Nahoa) Genealogy Parents Omecihuatl (Emerged by Tecpatl) Siblings the Nauhtzonteteo (1,600 gods) Consort None Children None...

Mesoamerica Ethnic group Aztec (Nahoa) Genealogy Parents Omecihuatl (Emerged by Tecpatl) Siblings the Nauhtzonteteo (1,600 gods) Consort Patecatl Children Centzon...

Mesoamerica Ethnic group Aztec (Nahua) Genealogy Parents Omecihuatl (Emerged by Tecpatl) Siblings the Nauhtzonteteo (1,600 gods) Consort Mayahuel Children Centzon...