Iztac-Mixcoatl
deity sky Aztec single tradition · 2
Iztac-Mixcoatl, meaning 'white cloud snake', is the personification of the Milky Way according to Jerónimo de Mendieta. The Nahuas call this inhabitant of Chicomoztoc 'White Cloud Serpent', since such is the shape of the great nebula in the sky.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
Relationships
- parent of
- Cuetlachoapan, Xicalancatl, Mixtecatl, Otomitl, Xelhua, Tenoch
- co occurs with
- Tonacatecutli, Apanecatl, Zolton, Cuilton, Ilancueye, Tlatlauhca, Yayauhqui-Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipōca, Ometecuhtli, Omecihuatl, Mixcoatl, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Yopi, Camaxtli, Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, Xipe-Totec, Quetzalcoatl, Cihuacoatl, Coatlicue, Coyolxauhqui, Centzon Huitznahua, Tlaltecuhtli, Centzonmīmixcōa, Tōnacātēcuhtli, Tōnacācihuātl, Chīmalmā
Mentioned by
- Huitzilopochtli
- Tezcatlipōca
- Ometecuhtli
- Omecihuatl
- Mixcoatl
- Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl
- Yopi
- Camaxtli
- Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca
- Xipe-Totec
- Quetzalcoatl
- Cihuacoatl
- Coatlicue
- Coyolxauhqui
- Centzon Huitznahua
- Tlaltecuhtli
and 4 more
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Jerónimo de Mendieta determines that Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call 'White Cloud Serpent', since such is the shape of the great nebula in the sky.”
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“Jerónimo de Mendieta determines that Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call 'White Cloud Serpent'”
#36935 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5