Xolotl

Xolotl was both in the Aztec pantheon and in the Toltec, the dark twin brother of Quetzalcoatl. Xolotl and Quetzalcoatl were the sons of the virgin Coatlicue.

Tasks and appearance

Xolotl Xolotl or is in the Nahuatl language, on the one for " servant ", "page ", " fool ", " harlequin " or feathers of a certain bird, on the other, " monster ", " monster ".

Xolotl was the god of lightning, death and misfortune. He was the Lord of the Evening Star, and thus the dark side of Venus. He was the god of the underworld, the protector of the twins and the keeper of the Aztec ball game ulama. At times he was equated with Xocotl, the Lord of the stars and the fire. In Mictlan he helped the deceased in their journey through the afterlife, just as night he accompanied the sun on their dangerous journey through the underworld.

Xolotl was often depicted as a skeleton or as monstrously distorted figure with a dog's head ( xolotl means in Nahuatl as " monsters " ) and twisted feet. Sometimes he is a hunchback, wearing as a sign of the destructive power of an ax in his hand and a sun disk on his back.

Name affinities

The name of the Axolotls ( Nahuatl: Axolotl

Xoloitzcuintle ( Nahuatl: Xoloitzcuintli < Xolo -tl itzcuin - tli, monstrous dog ) finally is the name of a Mexican hairless breed of dog. The breed was known in pre-Columbian times. The names Xolotl relationship with the dog breed refers to the mythological conception of the Aztecs that every deceased was accompanied by a dog of this breed on his way through the underworld. Despite the important position of the dogs within the spiritual worldview of the Aztecs be meat served many peoples of pre-Columbian Central America as a food source.