TYPE: Primordial God
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: A syncretization of Ehecatl and Quetzalcoatl, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticanus B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god Xolotl when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.