TYPE: God of the morning star (Venus)
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: An incarnation or avatara of the god Quetzalcoatl and one of the group classed as the Mixcoatl complex. The ruler of the twelfth of the thirteen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest, Teotl Tlalauhcan (the place of the red god). In other traditions (described in the codices Borgia and Vaticanus B) he is one of the four gods supporting the lowest heaven at each cardinal point, he resides in the east.