The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
(‘humming-bird of the south’) Tribal god of the Aztecs; also a solar god. His animal manifestation (nahualli) is the humming-bird, which is also a symbol of the sun; his weapon is the ‘turquoise snake’, the symbol of earthly and heavenly fires.
The myth tells
how he arose from the body of the earthgoddess → Coatlicue. He is the adversary of the moon and the stars. Huitzilopochtli embodies the morning sun, the day-time sky, the summer and the south, all of which makes him the luminous adversary of the dark → Tezcatlipoca.
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