Ometecuhtli
Mictlantecuhtli and his wife were the opposites and complements of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the givers of life.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in Colonial Codex Vaticanus 3738.
Relationships
- parent of
- Nauhtzonteteo, Tlatlauhca, Tezcatlipōca, Quetzalcoatl, Xiuhtecuhtli, Xipe-Totec
- co occurs with
- Ōmeyōcān, Chīmalmā, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Yopi, Camaxtli, Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, Iztac-Mixcoatl, Ilancueye, Tohil, K'awiil, Tepeyollotl, Xolotl, Chimalman, Quetzalpetlatl, Chalchiuhtlicue, Tlaltecuhtli, Tlalcihuatl, Xantico, Meztli, Omecihuatl, Mixcoatl, Tlatlauhca, Yayauhqui-Tezcatlipoca, Tōnacācihuātl, Cihuacoatl, Xochiquetzal, Ōmeteōtl, Coatlicue, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Mictlantecuhtli, Tonatiuh, Mictecacihuatl, Tlaloc, Nanahuatzin, Huitzilopochtli
- syncretized with
- Tōnacātēcuhtli
- consort of
- Omecihuatl
- has aspect
- Tōnacātēcuhtli
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Mictlantecuhtli and his wife were the opposites and complements of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the givers of life.”
#13541 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He was considered one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the primordial dual deity.”
#33023 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to another version of the myth, Quetzalcoatl is one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the four Tezcatlipocas, each of whom presided over one of the four cardinal directions.”
#33136 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the children of the creator couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl "Lord and Lady of Duality", "Lord and Lady of the Near and the Nigh", "Father and Mother of the Gods", "Father and Mother of us all", who received the gift of the ability to create other living beings without childbearing”
#33328 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, or Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl govern the divine nature divided into two gods (it is convenient to know man and woman; the man, who created and governed everything that is of the masculine gender and the woman everything that belonged to the feminine gender).”
#33436 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat