HUITZILOPOCHTLI

wēˌtsēlōpōchtˈlē, chief deity of the Aztec, god of war. He is said to have guided the Aztecs during their migration from Aztlán. Usually represented in sculptured images as hideous, he was the object of human sacrifice, particularly of war prisoners. He was also god of the sun, and it was believed that he was born each morning from the womb of Coatlicue, goddess of earth. His temple at Tenochtitlán was a great architectural achievement of pre-Columbian America.

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books on: Huitzilopochtli  - 248 results

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Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain
Book by Max Harris; University of Texas Press, 2000
Subjects: Moros Y Cristianos Festival--Mexico, Moros Y Cristianos Festival--Spain
...the courtyard of the Great Temple of Huitzilopochtli, young men burned pine bonfires against...while a captive ixiptla, dressed as Huitzilopochtli, danced. Panquetzaliztli honored Huitzilopochtli, whom we have already met as the...
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Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Book by R. D. Grillo; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Comparative Government, Ethnicity--Political Aspects, Multiculturalism, Pluralism (Social Sciences)
...add, or impose, the cult of Huitzilopochtli, but this scarcely amounted to religious proselytization. Huitzilopochtli set the Aztecs apart from other...have insisted upon worship of Huitzilopochtli. According to Duran 1964: 100...
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Selected Poems
Book by D. H. Lawrence; New Directions, 1947
Subjects: Poetry
SONG OF HUITZILOPOCHTLI I am Huitzilopochtli, The Red Huitzilopochtli, The blood-red. I am Huitzilopochtli, Yellow of the sun, Sun in the blood. I am Huitzilopochtli, White of the bone, Bone in the blood. I am Huitzilopochtli, With a...
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Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs
Book by H. B. Nicholson; University Press of Colorado, 2001
Subjects: Aztec Mythology, Aztecs--History--Sources, Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)--History And Criticism, Quetzalcoatl (Aztec Deity), Toltec Mythology, Toltecs--History--Sources
...1) Tenochtitlan was founded by Huitzilopochtli, coming with four hundred followers...reached, thought to be the son of Huitzilopochtli by miraculous conception; (6) his...dreaming of sexual relations with Huitzilopochtli; (7) driven from Mexico Tenochtitlan...
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Contests
Book by Andrew Duff-Cooper; Edinburgh University Press, 1990
Subjects: Competition (Psychology)--Congresses, Contests--Congresses
...Coatepec in these accounts began with Huitzilopochtli creating a lush paradise by damming...creating a source of water. Thus Huitzilopochtli, a deity with solar aspects, is...the sun of the daytime sky. When Huitzilopochtli decided to punish those among the...
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journal articles on: Huitzilopochtli  - 28 results

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Huitzilopochtli
Journal article by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee; Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, 1997
Subjects: Feminism
MARY HOPE WHITEHEAD LEE HUITZILOPOCHTLI ( diego y yo 1949) . . . y mas mentira...with his mark upon my forehead nina del sol huitzilopochtli daughter consort of the sun huitzilopochtli gluttonous god of war of human sacrifice huitzilopochtli
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Temptation and Glory in One Pima and Two Aztec Mythologies
Journal article by Donald M. Bahr; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: Vansina, Jan
...The Ramirez says the Aztec man-god Huitzilopochtli caused its people to die in one night...Pimas in the conquest of the Hohokam: Huitzilopochtli for the Mexica (mentioned previously...Green) and two men who are gods (Huitzilopochtli and Elder-brother). The first...
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Conversion, Deconversion, and Reversion: Vagaries of Religious Experience in Oscar Zeta Acosta's Autofictions
Journal article by Madeline Walker; MELUS, Vol. 34, 2009
Subjects: Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Criticism and interpretation, Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Religious aspects, Acosta, Oscar Zeta--Works, Conversion (Religion)--Influence, Conversion--Influence, Hispanic American authors--Criticism and interpretation, Hispanic American authors--Religious aspects, Hispanic American authors--Works, Hispanic American writers--Criticism and interpretation, Hispanic American writers--Religious aspects, Hispanic American writers--Works, The Revolt of the Cockroach People (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Revolt of the Cockroach People (Novel)--Religious aspects, TheAutobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, TheAutobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Novel)--Religious aspects
...It is Christmas Eve in the year of Huitzilopochtli, 1969. Three hundred Chicanos have...It is Christmas Eve in the year of Huitzilopochtli, 1969. Three hundred Chicanos have...beliefs and rituals ("the year of Huitzilopochtli" instead of the year of Jesus Christ...
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Sor Juana Inys De la Cruz: Un Sacrificio Perfecto Al Espyritu De Una yPoca
Journal article by Linda Egan; Chasqui, Vol. 39, 2010
Subjects: De la Cruz, Juana Inys--Obras, Literatura--Anylisis, Literatura--Historia, Literatura--Obras, Monjas, Mujeres poetas, Myxico
...monja iguala al Dios cristiano con Huitzilopochtli. (13) y no solamente aquy, en...sacrificio de los enemigos myticos de Huitzilopochtli, quien, no bien salta del vientre...el conocido mito del nacimiento de Huitzilopochtli encima de la montaya Coatepec pierde...
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Mimetic Rituals of Child Sacrifice in the Hopi Kachina Cult
Journal article by Susan E. James; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Aztec religion, Hopis--Religious aspects, Human sacrifice--History, Kachinas--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--History, Ritual, Rituals--History
...greatest son, the Aztec tribal god, Huitzilopochtli. (4) Coatlicues representation...in the guise of the Mexica sun god Huitzilopochtli and the cihuacoatl in the guise of...this time for the Aztec tribal god, Huitzilopochtli, while Sahagun mentions rites performed...
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magazine articles on: Huitzilopochtli  - 10 results

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Aztecs: A New Perspective: John M.D. Pohl Reviews Recent Scholarship about the Empire Swept Away by Cortes
Magazine article by John M.D. Pohl; History Today, Vol. 52, December 2002
Subjects: Aztecs--History, Aztecs--Research
...soldier to carry on the legacy of Huitzilopochtli, Hummingbird of the South; to be...god Tlaloc and the Chichimec war god Huitzilopochtli. The surrounding precinct itself...Coatlique, the legendary mother of Huitzilopochtli. Writings, drawings, and maps from...
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"The Art of Romare Bearden" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Magazine article; New Criterion, Vol. 23, December 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--New York, Bearden, Romare--Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions
...Spanish had a point when they beheld the sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli at the Great Temple, and were appalled? Even today...dead bodies cascading down the temple steps in homage to Huitzilopochtli. The Christian Eucharist, with its ritual partaking of...
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Daniel Guzman: Harris Lieberman
Magazine article by Lauren O'Neill-Butler; Artforum International, Vol. 47, March 2009
Subjects: Guzman, Daniel--Exhibitions, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions
...black vinyl sign that spanned the gallerys street-facing window, alluding to the Mexican newspaper as well as to Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of sun and war. That Guzman created such a strikingly cohesive installation, uniting past and...
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Why the West Has Won: Freedom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; The American Spectator, Vol. 34, November 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Democracy, Freedoms, Military history, War
...of its entire bloody course never matched the Aztec score of corpses in a mere four days at the Great Temple to Huitzilopochtli in 1487. Even on the most controversial of issues like freedom, consensual government and dissent, we must judge...
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Mexico's Ritual of Chance: In Colorful Cards and Riddles That Reveal This Nation's Psyche, Two Contemporary Artists Re-create the Popular Culture of Loteria
Magazine article by Ilan Stavans; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, January 2005
Subjects: Board games--History, Card games--History, Cards--History, Gambling industry--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...but death? There was a plethora of sets designed for kids, as well as kits depicting heroes in Mexican history (Huitzilopochtli, Cuauthemoc, Hernan Cortes, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Porfirio Diaz), and famous themes (Indian slavery...
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newspaper articles on: Huitzilopochtli  - 5 results

 
 
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Jerry Ladles It on; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 29, 2011
Subjects: Seinfeld, Jerry
...womb of Devaki. Stories of miraculous births also appear in completely independent religions. The solar deity Huitzilopochtli, patron god of the Aztecs, was conceived when his virtuous mother sweeping and tending to her penance on Mount...
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Nueva Exhibicion En El Field Museum Refleja la Gloria del Mundo Azteca
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 9, 2008
Subjects: Museums
...necesitando el combustible de corazones humanos para hacer sus vuelos a traves del cielo, al dios de la guerra Huitzilopochtli le gustaba el sabor de la carne humana, y otra deidad requeria que sus sacerdotes vistieran la piel de las victimas...
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Jerry's Souper Spoof; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 29, 2011
Subjects: Seinfeld, Jerry
...Stories of miraculous births also appear in completely independent religions. For instance, the solar deity Huitzilopochtli, patron god of the Aztecs, was conceived when his virtuous mother sweeping and tending to her penance on Mount...
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EMPIRE OF THE CANNIBALS; Once Thought to Be Peace-Loving Farmers, the Mayans Were, in Fact, the Most Bloodthirsty Race in History. Now Mel Gibson's New Film Reveals the Bizarre Truth about Their Barbaric Rituals - and Mysterious Downfall
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 9, 2006
Subjects: Gibson, Mel
...from a distance as the captured men were prepared to be sacrificed: From the pyramid sounded the dismal drum of Huitzilopochtli, and many other horns and shells and things like trumpets, and the sound was terrifying and we all looked toward...
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Christianity Doomed to Fail, along with All of the Other Religions; Church Still Stands in the Way of Science and Progress
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), March 26, 2008
...writer Mencken wrote. "What lingering mourner waters their mounds?" Who today, he asked, worships Jupiter or Huitzilopochtli (who had 5,000 youths and maidens sacrificed to him just 500 years ago). And what of Baal or Isisor Gwydion...


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encyclopedia articles on: Huitzilopochtli  - 4 results

 
 
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Huitzilopochtli
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUITZILOPOCHTLI we tselopocht le, chief deity of the Aztec, god of war. He is said to have guided the Aztecs during their migration from Aztlan...
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Aztec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...efficient army. Prisoners of war were used for human sacrifice to satisfy the many gods of the Aztec pantheon, notably Huitzilopochtli , the chief god, who was god of war. Spanish Conquest When the Spaniards, under Hernan Cortes , arrived in 1519...
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Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Aztec religion, it developed a unique character. The importance of human sacrifice in the cult of the war god, Huitzilopochtli, permeated life and art, and representations of skulls, hearts, hands, and sacrificial scenes were common...
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TenochtitlÁn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tlatelolco. The ceremonial precinct contained many structures, including a great pyramid sacred to the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli . It was to Tenochtitlan and the court of Montezuma that Hernan Cortes came, and it was from Tenochtitlan that...


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