Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca, mesoamericana deity. Gentleman of the sky and the Earth, source of life, trusteeship and shelter of the man, origin of the power and the happiness, owner of the battles, omnipresent, strong and invisible.

Between the toltecas, it was a maleficent God of the death, that descended from the sky to the Earth being worth of a spider fabric, to destroy the work of Quetzalcóatl, to whom one appeared to him under the aspect of a old man that offered the concoction to him of immortality, but this one was in fact one maddening drink.

Between nahuas (Aztec and other towns of speech náhuatl), Quetzalcóatl and Tezcatlipoca are twin and at the same time antagonistic deities. Quetzalcóatl is also called white Tezcatlipoca whereas the color of Tezcatlipoca is the black.

In one of the legend nahuas of the creation, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcóatl created to the world. The original ocean only existed, where the monster lived solely on the Earth, Cipactli, Tezcatlipoca offered its foot like decoy, and the Earth monster surfaced and ate it. Then, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcóatl seized of him, they extended and it to turn it into the Earth. Their multiple eyes became pools and lagoons, and their nasal graves are the caves. In order to repay the damage that did the monster to him of the Earth, Tezcatlipoca demands human sacrifices.

Tezcatlipoca imagines with a black strip in the rostrum and in a leg it shows a exhibited bone where it would have to be the foot. One imagines to him like a jaguar.

One of the most important ceremonies of the Aztec religion, consisted of the sacrifice of a young person who represented Tezcatlipoca. A volunteer offered itself to be sacrificed and during a year it was treaty like an Earth God, crossed the streets touching the flute and being adored. At the end of the year, it had to raise the temple, breaking four flutes that represented the cardinal points. Finally recostaba on the stone of the sacrifice and was extracted the heart to him.

Bibliography

• Olivier, Guilhem (2005), Tezcatlipoca. Ridicules and metamorphosis of an Aztec God, Mexico: Fund of Economic Culture. ISBN 9681673360.