Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is the god of dawn and the planet Venus in Aztec mythology. Enraged at Tonatiuh's arrogance, he shoots an arrow at the sun. However, the dart misses its mark and the sun throws his own back at the morning star, piercing the Lord of Dawn through the head, transforming him into Itztlacoliuhqui.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Aztec Empire period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Nochpalliicue, Yapallicue, Patecatl, Tlazolteotl, Ometecuhtli, Omecihuatl, Xolotl, Chimalman, Quetzalpetlatl, Mixcoatl, Ītzpāpālōtl, Shahar, Zorya, Auseklis, Ēarendel, At-Tariq, Barnumbirr, Huitzilopochtli, Cihuacoatl, Xochiquetzal, Ōmeteōtl, Tezcatlipōca, Coatlicue, Xipe-Totec, Hesperus
- manifests as
- Itztlacoliuhqui, Quetzalcoatl
- enemy of
- Tonatiuh
- aspect of
- Quetzalcoatl
- manifested by
- Quetzalcoatl, Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl
- has aspect
- Itztlacoliuhqui
- allied with
- Xiuhtecuhtli
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Enraged at his arrogance, the god of dawn and the planet Venus, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, shoots an arrow at the sun. However, the dart misses its mark and the sun throws his own back at the morning star, piercing the Lord of Dawn through the head.”
#13376 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“As the morning star, he was known by the title Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, meaning "lord of the star of the dawn".”
#33142 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is patron of the trecena beginning with the day 1 Snake and ending with 13 Movement. In this he is paired with Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire.”
#33601 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“These features are shared with Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the Lord of the Dawn, god of the morning star”
#36902 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5