TYPE: Creator god
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: With his consort Yacahuiztli he engendered the night in Aztec cosmogony. The ruler of the sixth of the thirteen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest. Teotlcozauhcan (the place of the yellow god). One of the group classed as the Mictlantecuhtli complex.