Lords of the Day

Further information: List of Aztec mythological figures

See also: Lords of the Night

In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl : Tonalteuctin)^{[ citation needed ]} are a set of thirteen gods who ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens.^{[ citation needed ]} They were cyclical, so that the same god ruled every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are: ^[1]

• Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire and time.
• Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the earth.
• Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism.
• Tonatiuh, god of the sun.
• Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds.
• Mictlantecuhtli, god of the underworld.
• Centeotl, god of maize. Also recognized as Chicomecoatl, ^[2] goddess of agriculture.
• Tlaloc, god of the thunder, rain and earthquakes.
• Ehecatl, Lord of wind,life giver,who breaths life into being and moves the sun,the god created love for his lover mayahuel,an important aspect of Quetzalcoatl , the lord of the West.
• Tezcatlipoca, god of providence, matter and the invisible, ruler of the night, Great Bear, impalpable, ubiquity and the twilight, the lord of the North.
• Mictecacihuatl, goddess of the underworld.
• Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli,Lord of the House of Dawn,the morning star, Venus,an important aspect of Quetzalcoatl.
• Citlalicue, goddess of the female stars (Milky Way).

References

1. Panorama Editorial, ed. (1998). Dioses Prehispánicos de México (in Spanish). México. pp. 140, 141. ISBN   968-38-0306-7.
2. Cecilio Agustín Robelo (1905). Biblioteca Porrúa. Imprenta del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnología (ed.). Diccionario de Mitología Nahua (in Spanish). Mexico. p. 72. ISBN   978-9684327955.