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Xiuhtecuhtli

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Xiuhtecuhtli was considered to be the father of the Gods, who dwelled in the turquoise enclosure in the center of earth. Xiuhtecuhtli-Huehueteotl was one of the oldest and most revered of the indigenous pantheon. The cult of the God of Fire, of the Year, and of Turquoise perhaps began as far back as
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as a whole) to get past its zenith. Having ascertained this, they would tear out the heart of a sacrificial victim and kindle a flame in a small wooden hearth they placed inside the hole left in his chest. Priests used a drill method to generate this sacred flame. It was then carried on pine sticks
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was burnt in his honour. On the day of the festival, the priests of Xiuhtecuhtli spent the day dancing and singing before their god. People caught animals, including mammals, birds, snakes, lizards and fish, for ten days before the festival in order to throw them into the hearth on the night of the
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of the year. The Nahuatl word izcalli means "stone house" and refers to the building where maize used to be dried and roasted between mid-January and mid-February. The whole month was therefore devoted to fire. The Izcalli rituals grew in importance every four years. A framework image of the deity
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on a thin gold plate that covered almost all the shield. In his right hand he has a kind of scepter that was a round gold plate with a hole in the middle, and topped by two globes, one larger than the other, the smaller one had a point. Xiuhtecuhtli is closely associated with youthful warriors and
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with which he was closely associated. Statuettes of the deity from the temple depict a seated male with his arms crossed. A sacred fire was always kept burning in the temples of Xiuhtecuhtli. In gratitude for the gift of fire, the first mouthful of food from each meal was flung into the hearth.
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Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat. In historical sources he is called by many names, which reflect his varied aspects and dwellings in the three parts of the cosmos. He was the lord of volcanoes, the personification of life after death, warmth in cold
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Xiuhtecuhtli was celebrated often but especially at the end of every 52-year period. This was the time the 365-day solar and the 260-day sacred calendars ended on the same day and the Aztec celebrated the Binding of the Years with the
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means "year" as well as "turquoise" and "fire", and Xiuhtecuhtli was also the god of the year and of time. The Lord of the Year concept came from the Aztec belief that Xiuhtecuhtli was the
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period. Turquoise was the symbolic equivalent of fire for Aztec priests. A small fire was permanently kept alive at the sacred center of every Aztec home in honor of Xiuhtecuhtli.
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was constructed from wood and was richly finished with clothing, feathers and an elaborate mask. Quails were sacrificed to the idol and their blood spilt before it and
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Xiuhtecuhtli's face is painted with black and red pigment. Xiuhtecuhtli was usually depicted adorned with turquoise mosaic, wearing the turquoise
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in 2003 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the British Museum featured a mask of Xiuhtecuhtli alongside other Museum objects such as the
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Stone sculptures of Xiuhtecuhtli were ritually buried as offerings, and various statuettes have been recovered during excavations at the
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to light the fires anew in every hearth, including the sacred braziers of perpetual fire, that numbered over 600 in the capital alone.
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crown of rulership on his head and a turquoise butterfly pectoral on his chest, and he often wears a descending turquoise
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Every four years a more solemn version of the festival was held at the temple of Xiuhtecuhtli in
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with rulership, and was considered a solar god. His principal symbols are the
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warriors but clear representations of the god are not common until the
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Xiuhtecuhtli in his role as one of the lords of the night, from the
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Many of the attributes of Xiuhtecuhtli are found associated with
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festival. On the tenth day of Izcalli, during a festival called
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1 Coatl ("1 Snake"). Xiuhtecuhtli was also one of the nine
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Díaz & Rodgers 1993, p.xix. Smith 1996, 2003, p.248
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The annual festival of Xiuhtecuhtli was celebrated in
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Index


Ilhuicatl-Teotlatlauhco
Calpulli
Male
Mesoamerica
Aztec
Nahua
Tezcatlipocas
Chāntico
Chāntico
Xiuhxoxoauhqui
Xiuhcozauhqui
Xiuhiztac
Xiuhtlatlauhqui

Aztec mythology
[ʃiʍˈteːkʷt͡ɬi]
Turquoise
fire
[kʷeˈs̻aɬt͡sin̥]
[iːʃkoːˈsaʍkiˀ]
Huehueteotl
Chalchiuhtlicue
Ometecuhtli
Florentine Codex
Preclassic
Nahuatl
North Star
calendar
trecena

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