TYPE: Creator god
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: The sun deity representing the second of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to the air or wind and presided over by Quetzacoatl, to whose complex of deities he belongs. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by hurricanes. All humanity turned into monkeys. Illustrated by the "Stone of the Four Suns" [Yale Peabody Museum] Also Ehecatl; Ehecatonatiuh.