Piltzintecuhtli (TR8r)
This example of iconography from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis shows the "Night Lord," i.e. one of the patrons of the second half of the first trecena (13-day period associated with a group of deities or divine forces), called Piltzintecuhtli ("Prince-Lord"). He was a solar deity, linked to Tonatiuh and associated with the rising sun, healing, and visions. He has feathers in multiple colors, white feathers, and a couple of green stone or jade jewels.
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It seems there are other divine forces with the name Piltzintecuhtli, or, if not, then his characteristics and associations are all over the map. Since he is not a patron of the trecena in which he appears, the information about him is much more abbreviated.
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pilçinteoctli
Piltzintecuhtli or Piltzin Tecuhtli
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ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood
deities, deidades, divinities, divinidades, divine forces, fuerzas divinas, plumas, jades, príncipes, señores, teuctli
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pilli, a person of noble lineage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pilli
tecuhtli, a lord, an important nobleman heading a lordly house or teccalli, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
Príncipe-Señor
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Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 8 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f41.item.zoom
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