HU

IZILOPO
CHTLI

Huitzilopochtli or "Lefty Hummingbird" is the god of war, solar dedication and patron of the
Mexicas. Under his tutelage, this town became the most powerful in the Mesoamerican area
during the Postclassic period.

In Mexica mythology, Huitzilopochtli ordered the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the place

where the Mexicas found an eagle carrying the Atl-tlachinolli, which would have to be resting on a
cactus, among other characteristics. This Mexica myth about Huitzilopochtli and the founding of
Mexico-Tenochtitlan is found on the National Shield of Mexico, part of the Mexican Flag.

According to Mexica mythology Huitzilopochtli is the son of the goddess of Fertility (Coatlicue) and
the young Sun son of the old Sun (Tonatiuh). The Festival in honor of Huitzilopochtli was
celebrated once a year whose name in Nahuatl is Panquetzaliztli. This Mexica deity is not common
to the other Nahua or Mesoamerican peoples, and apparently it was popularized by the reformer
Tlacaelel (1398-1480).

Huitzilopochtli or "Lefty Hummingbird" is the god of war, solar dedication and patron of the
Mexicas. Under his tutelage, this town became the most powerful in the Mesoamerican area
during the Postclassic period.
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OD OF
WAR

The god of war, according to legend, Huitzilopochtli was born from Coatlicue (or according to
another myth of the Omecíhuatl theogony), Mother Earth, who became pregnant by means of a
ball of feathers or bluish cotton that fell from the sky while sweeping the temples of the Sierra de
Tollan. His 400 brothers (Centzonhuitznahua) upon noticing their mother's pregnancy and at the
request of their sister Coyolxauhqui, decided to execute the son at birth to hide the supposed
dishonor, since Huitzilopochtli was an unnatural son of his father, Mixcóatl or Ometecuhtli. But
Huitzilopochtli was born and took the mythical weapon Xiuhcóatl (fire serpent) in his hands,
defeated and easily killed Coyolxauhqui and the Centzonhuitznahua, where Coyolxauhqui was
dismembered when he fell down the slopes of the mythological mountain called Coatépec.
Huitzilopochtli took his sister's head and threw it into the sky, with which she became the ruler of
the Moon, Huitzilopochtli being the ruler of the Sun.

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Since Huitzilopochtli was a deity native to Mexico-Tenochtitlan and without identifiable
predecessors to the different Mesoamerican peoples, the ancient Mexicas elevated Huitzilopochtli
to the same position as other more recognized deities such as Xipetótec, Quetzalcóatl and
Tezcatlipoca as one of the Four Tezcatlipocas, reflecting his mythical identification as the

war
Tezcatlipoca Azul, whose sacred kingdom or cardinal point was the South. But after the rise of
Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the Culhuas-Mexica would have separated the birth of Huitzilopochtli into
two individualized myths, the Huitzilopochtli born of the primordial gods Ometecuhtli and
Omecihuatl under the story of the creation of the universe, being the one who set fire to the
created Half Sun by Quetzalcóatl, thus representing the will to decide and order the creation of
the world, the universe and humanity; while Huitzilopochtli son of Coatlicue (the earth), which
according to the myth became pregnant by touching some feathers (or alternatively Mixcóatl) will
help his mother against his sister Coyolxauhqui (the moon) and his brothers Centzon Huitznáhuac
(the southern stars). , who wanted to assassinate her for dishonor, thus symbolizing the perpetual
struggle between the sun and the moon across the firmament as the patron solar god of fire, war,
battles and war tactics.

Therefore and since then the Tlahtoanis of the Great Tenochtitlan, strengthened the god
Huitzilopochtli with the execution of captive enemy warriors as in the Mexica mythology of the
birth of Huitzilopochtli, which would indefinitely feed the life of the Sun on the top of the Great
Temple, distinguishing between two manifestations represented by two stories; Blue Tezcatlipoca
or Huitzilopochtli (solar will) and Huitzilopochtli (solar war).

Despite being the most important god for the life of the Mexicas, no representations of
Huitzilopochtli have been found, except in some codices, because the deity was exclusively Mexica
and the Tlaxcaltecas, Huejotzingas among others, allies of the Spanish, who they did not worship
Huitzilopochtli. On the part of the Spanish investigation, the native culture was not appreciated
and everything related to the local religion was considered demonic and the cultural eradication of
the Mexica god was proceeded.

It is, true, a thing of great admiration that our Lord God has hidden for so many centuries a jungle
of so many idolatrous peoples, whose abundant fruits only the devil has taken, and in the infernal
fire he has treasured them.
Uitzilopochtli sacrifices and slits the throat of Coyolxauhqui, to later pursue and disperse the
Huitznáhua through the sky. This myth represents the triumph of the sun over the moon and the
stars, it is also a metaphor for dawn. His children were outraged at this fact and attacked Coatlίcue
but when they decapitated his mother Huitzilopochtli emerged from the corpse with all his
weapons in hand and he cut off the head of his sister Coyolxauhqui. For the Aztecs, the Cerro de
las serpientes, the mythical hill of Coatepec, in the Mezquital Valley, was the place where the god
Huitzilopochtli was born

The Aztec empire fell after 1520 when European invaders led by Hernán Cortés arrived with
superior weapons and new diseases. In addition, the empire was based on force, so some
indigenous groups helped the Spanish defeat the Aztecs. The end of the Aztec Empire occurred on
August 13, 1521, when the Spanish—in alliance with the Tlaxcalans and Totonacs , among other
indigenous peoples— defeated the Mexica resistance in Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. Why did the
Mexica disappear?

The fall of Aztec society has been the source of much fascination, and it is generally believed that a
variety of factors were involved, primarily the arrival of Spanish forces, followed by various
outbreaks of European disease among the native population.

Finally, I will say that Huizilapochtli is an extremely powerful god and very skillful in terms of
combat, fast as a hummingbird and fierce as a dragon, that was Huizilopochtli, the only one
capable of riding the feathered serpent, he was a kind god and he You can say that proud, but he
fought for the weak, active in war and aware of the Mexica people, without a doubt he deserves
the title of the god of war.
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Lothar Nicolas Esquerra Quiroz 3´D