The provided sources do not include a cosmogonic or biographical origin tale for Atlaua. Within the material given, Atlaua appears as a named divine figure integrated into Aztec religious practice—a water-associated god invoked in specific circumstances (notably when there were deaths in water) and the focus of temple worship—rather than as a deity whose birth or creation story is attested in these citations.
The supplied materials contain no primary description of Atlaua's physical, iconographic, or anthropomorphic appearance. No details of costume, attributes, or visual representations are documented in the provided sources.
In the sources cited, Atlaua is described as a water god who is also characterized as a fisherman and an archer. He is recorded as a focus of worship at at least four ancient Aztec temples (one account claiming the tallest was supposedly over 200 feet tall) and was prayed to by the Aztecs in instances of deaths in water — for example, during Hernando Cortés's conquest when accounts say the lake was 'floating with heads and corpses.' Beyond these associations, the provided material does not supply further claims about magical powers, cosmological jurisdiction, or specific functional rituals.
Acolnahuacatl
Acolnahuacatl is a name attested in central Mexican sources both as a historical Tepanec ruler of Azcapotzalco and, in several modern compilations and trivia lists, as a minor chthonic or underworld-associated figure (often given the variant Acolmiztli). The evidence in the provided material is divided: the historical/genealogical reading is supported by standard reference entries, while the deity reading appears mainly in secondary online god-lists and quizzes and is not substantiated by detailed primary ritual or mythic texts in the supplied set.
Ahuiateteo
Ahuiateteo (Āhuiatēteoh; also rendered Mācuīltōnalequeh) are a quintet of Aztec deities associated with excess, pleasure, and the dangers that accompany over‑indulgence. They appear in calendrical and codical contexts, are invoked in divinatory practice, and are thematically linked to pleasures (feasting, drinking, gambling, sex, music) and the misfortunes that follow excess.
Ahuitzotl
Ahuitzotl is both the personal name of the eighth tlatoani (ruler) of Tenochtitlan (reigned ca. 1486–1502) known for military expansion and monumental rebuilding, and an onomastic term in Nahuatl for an aquatic animal/legendary creature (commonly glossed 'water thorny' and often associated with an otter or water opossum). The sources treat these registers—historical ruler and animal-name—as related but distinct uses of the same Nahuatl lexeme.
Ahuizotl
Ahuizotl is identified in the provided sources as an Aztec mythological creature; the same lexical form also names an historical Aztec emperor (Ahuitzotl). The available materials for this entry are limited to modern reference pages and a small set of artistic and popular-culture uses of the name, and do not contain primary indigenous mythic accounts or detailed ethnographic descriptions.
Amimitl (Opochtli)
A Mexica/Aztec deity associated with fishing, hunting, and water-related technologies; identified in sources with the better-documented figure Opochtli, "The Left," who functions as a specialized patron of implements and as a representative or attendant of the rain god Tlaloc. A temple in the Tira de la Peregrinación has been interpreted by a scholar as possibly belonging to a figure labeled Amimitl, but that identification is uncertain.
Atlacoya
Atlacoya is named in modern compilations as a figure from Aztec tradition associated with drought; some modern databases alternately classify the name under water-deity categories. The supplied sources do not provide primary-codex citations, iconography, etymology, or detailed ritual texts.
Atlahua
Atlahua is an Aztec water-associated deity attested in colonial and modern summaries as a water god described as a fisherman and archer, identified in sources as a blue/aspectual form of Tlaloc and invoked in contexts of deaths in water.
Aztec Creator-Brothers
A quaternity of primordial divine offspring in Aztec (Mexica) myth who dwell in the highest heaven Ilhuicatl-Omeyocan as children of Omecihuatl and Ometecuhtli. Identified in sources with fourfold aspects (conventionally four Tezcatlipocas / colored aspects such as Black, Red, White, Blue) they act as cosmological agents who create living beings, take turns ruling as the Sun in successive world-ages, and participate in sacrificial acts that sustain cosmic cycles.
Camaxtle (Mixcoatl)
Camaxtle (also spelled Camaxtli) identified with Mixcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity of the hunt who is associated with the Milky Way, the stars, and the heavens and served as a patron god for groups such as the Otomi and Chichimecs and as a central cult figure in Huejotzingo and Tlaxcala.
Centeōtl
Centeōtl is the Nahua/Aztec maize deity — the divine personification of maize, its growth, cultivation and role in human subsistence. The name (Cintli + teōtl) ties the deity to the maize ear; Centeōtl features centrally in planting and harvest rites, calendrical offices, and Aztec cosmological genealogy.
Centzon Tōtōchtin
A collective of Aztec pulque deities literally rendered 'Four Hundred Rabbits', the Centzon Tōtōchtin function within the pulque cult and are associated with pulque production, ritual use, regulated intoxication, and related night/lunar symbolism.
Centzonhuītznāhua
A multitudinous collective of southern star-gods in Aztec (Nahuatl) mythology. They appear in origin myths of the god Huitzilopochtli as the innumerable brothers who conspire against their mother and are slain or scattered by Huitzilopochtli.
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