Aztec religion The Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of '' teotl'' was construed as the supreme god Ometeotl, as well as a diverse pantheon of lesser gods and manifestations of nature. The popular religion te ...

, Itztapaltotec (sometimes spelled Iztapaltotec) is an aspect of the fertility god

Xipe Totec In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec (; ) or XipetotecRobelo 1905, p. 768. ("Our Lord the Flayed One") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare, the sea ...

. In the

Aztec calendar The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendar, calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian era, Pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of Mexico, peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the bas ...

, he is one of the patrons of the

trecena A trecena (From Spanish: trece) is a 13-day period used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican calendars. The 260-day Mayan calendar (the '' tonalpohualli'') was divided into 20 trecenas. Trecena is derived from the Spanish chroniclers and translates to ...

beginning with the day One Rabbit (''ce tochtli'' in

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

), alongside

Xiuhtecuhtli In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtēcuhtli ("Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat. In historical sources he is called by many names, which reflect his varied aspects and dwellings in the three parts of the cosmos. He was ...

, the god of fire. Xipe Totec proper is the patron of the trecena beginning with the day One Dog (''ce itzcuintli''). Itztapaltotec is an obscure figure, known only from ''

tonalamatl The ''tonalamatl'' is a divinatory almanac used in central Mexico in the decades, and perhaps centuries, leading up to the Spanish conquest. The word itself is Nahuatl in origin, meaning "pages of days". The ''tonalamatl'' was structured aroun ...

'' (calendars). Brief, confusing information about him is given in two related manuscripts, the

Codex Telleriano-Remensis The ''Codex Telleriano-Remensis'', produced in sixteenth-century New Spain, Mexico on European paper, is one of the finest surviving examples of Aztec manuscript painting. It holds the earliest written evidence of earthquakes in Americas, the Ame ...

and the

Codex Ríos Codex Ríos, originally titled and also known as Codex Vaticanus A, is a 16th-century Italian translation and augmentation of an Aztec codex, the precise identity of which remains uncertain. Its source may have been either Codex Telleriano-Reme ...

(or Codex Vaticanus A). Itztapaltotec is probably related to Itztli, another figure of the Aztec calendar also depicted as a personified knife. __NOTOC__

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References

*{{cite book , author=Quiñones Keber, Eloise , year=1995 , title=Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript , location=Austin , publisher=University of Texas Press , isbn=0-292-76901-6 , pages=189–190

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A translation of the text of the ''tonalamatl'' section of the Codex Ríos — John Pohl's Mesoamerica
Aztec gods

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