Tepoztecatl

Tepoztecatl (also Tezcatzontecatl, straw -covered mirror ) was in the Aztec mythology, the god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility.

Mythology

Tepoztecatl was considered one of the four hundred sons Mayahuels that the agave plant from which the alcoholic pulque was made incarnate. When his father Pantecatl is called. According to reports, the highest of the four hundred pulque gods, Ome Tochtli ( Two Rabbits ) was considered synonymous with Tepoztecatl. Elsewhere, a distinction is made between the two. The Pulquegöttern was assigned to itself has been associated with the Moon the rabbit. The various degrees of drunkenness were designated by the name of Pulquegöttern. So was " four hundred rabbits " as an absolute 'drinking, " fifteen to twenty rabbits " marked a slight tipsy. As Pulque Tepoztecatl was also associated with fertility rites and the moon. He was presented with upward-pointing nose and with a face, one half red and the other was black. In Tepoztlan (now the Mexican state of Morelos ) Tepoztecatl was revered as a tribal God.

Archeology

In Tepoztlan is the pyramid of Tepozteco, also called El Tepozteco. It was built around 1250 in the tribal area of Xochimilca, a Nahua tribe that had settled since about 1200 AD in the valley of Tepoztlan. The pyramid and the temple were built on consecrated Tepoztecatl. After the conquest of the region by the Aztecs, the pyramid has been extended, most recently in 1452, and continued the cult of the Pulque. In the residential areas near the temple lived priests who performed the rituals in honor of the god. His statue was destroyed by the Dominican Domingo de la Anunciacion in the 16th century. Until its destruction of the city was the destination of pilgrims, some of which came from far away, even from Chiapas and Guatemala.