Omecihuatl
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, Xipe-Totec
- co occurs with
- Mixcoatl, Yopi, Camaxtli, Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, Iztac-Mixcoatl, Ilancueye, Ōmetēuctli, Quaxolotl, Tohil, K'awiil, Tepeyollotl, Xolotl, Chimalman, Quetzalpetlatl, Chalchiuhtlicue, Tlaltecuhtli, Tlalcihuatl, Xiuhtecuhtli, Xantico, Meztli, Chīmalmā, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Tlatlauhca, Yayauhqui-Tezcatlipoca, Cihuacoatl, Xochiquetzal, Ōmeteōtl, Coatlicue, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Mictlantecuhtli, Tonatiuh, Mictecacihuatl, Tlaloc, Nanahuatzin, Huitzilopochtli, Tōnacātēcuhtli
- consort of
- Ōmetēuctli, Ometecuhtli
- syncretized with
- Tōnacācihuātl
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Mictlantecuhtli and his wife were the opposites and complements of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the givers of life.”
#13542 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He was considered one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the primordial dual deity.”
#33024 · 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.”
#33137 · 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”
#33329 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Omecihuatl, for her part, gave birth to many children on the Thirteen Heavens with Ometecuhtli, and after all these births she had given birth to a flint, which in their language they call tecpatl, from which the other gods were amazed and frightened.”
#33437 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat