Tepeyollotl
Sign in to savethumb|right|Tepeyollotl in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl (; "heart of the mountains"; also Tepeyollotli) was the god of darkened caves, earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the Night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the Sun. In the calendar, Tepeyollotl rules over both the third day, Calli (house), and the third trecena, 1-Mazatl (deer). link=File:Standing_jaguar.jpg|left|thumb|Tepeyollotl was depicted as a jaguar, which was a sacred animal to him. The word is derived as a compound of the Nahuatl words ' ("mountain"),
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- the Eighth Hour of the Night
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- Tepēyōllōtl
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- Aztec
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- Tepeyollotl, Codex Borgia.
- Deity.gender
- male
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thumb|right|Tepeyollotl in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis. In Aztec mythology, Tepēyōllōtl (; "heart of the mountains"; also Tepeyollotli) was the god of darkened caves, earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the Night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the Sun. In the calendar, Tepeyollotl rules over both the third day, Calli (house), and the third trecena, 1-Mazatl (deer). link=File:Standing_jaguar.jpg|left|thumb|Tepeyollotl was depicted as a jaguar, which was a sacred animal to him. The word is derived as a compound of the Nahuatl words ' ("mountain"), and ' ("heart" or "interior"). Tepeyollotl is usually depicted as cross-eyed holding the typical white staff with green feathers. Sometimes Tezcatlipoca wore Tepeyollotl for an animal skin or disguise to trick other gods into not knowing who he was.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tepeyollotl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.