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Huitzilopochtli

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The tutelary deity of the Aztecs, worshiped as a god of the sun and of war.

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  • proper noun The most important god of the Mexica.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Nahuatl : huizilin, hummingbird + opochtli, left-hand side.]

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Examples

  • There was horrid Huitzilopochtli with his crocodile head, and Xipe Totec, the Flayed God, and Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent.

    Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Gate of Worlds 1 - Robert Silverberg Blue Tyson 2010

  • There was horrid Huitzilopochtli with his crocodile head, and Xipe Totec, the Flayed God, and Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • The Aztecs of ancient America demanded the best music on days that celebrated Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca and Tlaloc.

    Lorenzo Candelaria: The Sacred Nature Of Music Lorenzo Candelaria 2011

  • The Aztecs of ancient America demanded the best music on days that celebrated Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca and Tlaloc.

    Lorenzo Candelaria: The Sacred Nature Of Music Lorenzo Candelaria 2011

  • The Aztecs of ancient America demanded the best music on days that celebrated Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca and Tlaloc.

    Lorenzo Candelaria: The Sacred Nature Of Music Lorenzo Candelaria 2011

  • The first chapter, "The Final Years of the Binni gula'sa '1495-1519," begins by introducing us to a beautiful young woman, "Chitugui '(yellow bird) … grinding maize on a metate," but soon we discover that the Binni gula'sa ', like so many indigenous communities, is about to be attacked by the much more powerful Aztecs (who live far to the north) to provide living bodies to sacrifice to their war god, Huitzilopochtli.

    The Isthmus: Stories from Mexico's Past, 1495-1995 2010

  • The first chapter, "The Final Years of the Binni gula'sa '1495-1519," begins by introducing us to a beautiful young woman, "Chitugui '(yellow bird) … grinding maize on a metate," but soon we discover that the Binni gula'sa ', like so many indigenous communities, is about to be attacked by the much more powerful Aztecs (who live far to the north) to provide living bodies to sacrifice to their war god, Huitzilopochtli.

    The Isthmus: Stories from Mexico's Past, 1495-1995 by Bruce Stores 2010

  • The other was for Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and of war.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Warren Buffett, for example, seems to have emerged from the womb ready to go, like the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli.

    How to outsmart your biases Bob Frick 2010

  • The Aztecs of ancient America demanded the best music on days that celebrated Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca and Tlaloc.

    Lorenzo Candelaria: The Sacred Nature Of Music Lorenzo Candelaria 2011

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  • name means '"Hummingbird on the Left", or "Left-Handed Hummingbird", huitzilin being Nahuatl for hummingbird).Huitzilopochtli's mother was Coatlicue, and his father was a ball of feathers (or, alternatively, Mixcoatl)

    October 3, 2010