1. TEZCATLIPOCA (Lecture 35)

2. • Tezcatlipoca most powerful god • first created god (4 Tezcatlipocas) • Tezcatlipoca as Lord of Four Corners/Four Colors •Tezcatlipoca-Quetzalcoatl as Trickster pair; tension between them maintains world in existence

3. TEZCATLIPOCA
POINT
ALIAS
COMMENT
Red
East
sunrise
Xipe Totec
Our Lord the Flayed One
sacrifice
renewal
regeneration
Black
North
midnight
Tezcatlipoca
Smoking Mirror
darkness
magic
delusion
White
West
sunset
Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl
Plumed Serpent-Wind
culture-bringer
Yellow
_____________
Blue
South
noon
Huitzilopochtli
Southern Humming-bird
_________________
Mictlantecuhtli
Lord of the Dead
Nahuat warrior
_______________
death

4. Associations night Night Wind Night Sun (Moon) jaguar (nocturnal)
earth
obsidian
death

5. Associations magic, sorcery shape-shifting shamanism music
hallucination/madness
smoke (poca)
divination
mirror (tezcatl)

6. Mirror (tezcatl)
earth/obsidian/underworld cenote/underworld divination (catoptromancy) mirror (tezcatli) jaguar eyes (smoked) human eyes (cf. Popol Vuh) royal scrying blank mirror in sky

7. Associations drunkenness intoxication ecstasy sexual debauchery
rabbits
fire
fire-drill
smoke (poca)
bone
serpent
dog
lameness

8. Tezcatlipoca and lameness
• gods that spin on one leg or use fire drill to make fire or lightning have sexual associations (~ “fire and smoke” = sex) Tezcatlipoca invents fire-drill god Tlaloc uses fire-drill to make lightning bolt lame Nanahuatzin craks mountain with lightning • first human beings Tata and Nene punished for “making smoke” by being turned into dogs • Tezcatlipoca’s missing foot bitten by Cipactli, but also represents Night Sun bitten by Jaguar Mountain, Moon that passes through phases, castratiuon as punishment for sexual deviance

9. Associations war jaguar hunting kingship jaguar as predator
mirror (tezcatl) used by kings

10. Satan & Tezcatlipoca