Mixcoatl
Mixcoatl is the son of Cihuacōātl in Aztec mythology. She abandoned him at a crossroads, and tradition says she often returns there to weep for her lost son, only to find a sacrificial knife.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Aztec religion flourished between the 14th and 16th centuries.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Centzonhuītznāhuah, Tzitzimimeh, tzitzimime, Tlahuizcalpanteuctli, Yopi, Camaxtli, Iztac-Mixcoatl, Quetzalpetlatl, Ītzpāpālōtl, Xelhua, Tenoch, Cuetlachoapan, Xicalancatl, Mixtecatl, Otomitl, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Ilancueye, Tlatlauhca, Mimixcoa, Mecitli, Omecihuatl, Cihuateteo, Quilaztli, Ōmeteōtl, Xolotl, Chimalman, Xipe-Totec, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Huitzilopochtli, Cihuacoatl, Coyolxauhqui, Ometecuhtli, Tōnacātēcuhtli, Tōnacācihuātl, Chīmalmā
- syncretized with
- Camaxtle-Mixcoatl, Camaxtle
- aspect of
- Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca
- manifests as
- Tezcatlipōca
- child of
- Four Hundred Mimixcoa, Xochiquetzal, Tlaltecuhtli, Tonatiuh, Ītzpāpālōtl, Tonacatecutli, Cihuacoatl, Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue
- manifested by
- Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, Tezcatlipōca, Yayauhqui-Tezcatlipoca
- allied with
- Apantecuhtli, Cuauhtlicoauh, Cuitlachcihuatl, Tlotepe
- consort of
- Coatlicue
- enemy of
- Centzonmīmixcōa, Apanecatl, Zolton, Cuilton
Mentioned by
- Omecihuatl
- Cihuateteo
- Quilaztli
- Ōmeteōtl
- Xolotl
- Chimalman
- Xipe-Totec
- Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
- Huitzilopochtli
- Cihuacoatl
- Coyolxauhqui
- Ometecuhtli
- Tōnacātēcuhtli
- Tōnacācihuātl
- Chīmalmā
- Four Hundred Mimixcoa
and 19 more
Sources
Source passages
“She is also the mother of Mixcoatl, whom she abandoned at a crossroads. Tradition says that she often returns there to weep for her lost son, only to find a sacrificial knife.”
#15011 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Mixcoatl Tamoanchan”
#15046 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“A third story narrates that Chimalman was hit in the womb by an arrow shot by Mixcoatl and nine months later she gave birth to a child which was called Quetzalcoatl.”
#33134 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The leader of the group is a synoptic figure and includes them all, hence his name, Mixcoatl. In the myth, Tezcatlipoca is said to have changed himself into Mixcoatl in the second year after the great flood at the end of the fourth aeon when the sky crashed down up the earth.”
#33473 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, the enemy who in his invocation of Mixcoatl impregnates Chimalma. the path that Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl traveled was marked by the Milky Way. And this great nebula was also called Mixcoatl or Iztac-Mixcoatl, 'white cloud snake'”
#33681 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5