Xiuhtecuhtli (TR8r)
This iconographic example shows a representation of the divine force or deity of fire, Xiuhtecuhtli. He is shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right. He wears a crown or diadem (xiuhhuitzolli) of turquoise blue with a red (perhaps leather) tie. The diadem is the symbol for tecuhtli (lord). He also has green feathers and other adornments.
Stephanie Wood
Eloise Quiñones Keber identifies Xiuhtecuhtli as the "Turquoise Lord" and a "fire god." {See: Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 1995, 141.] Mutsumi Izeki identifies fire and the color red as an "extended sense" of xihuitl as exemplified in Xiuhtecuhtli, a divine force often called the "god of fire," the "god of year," and the "god of turquoise." [See: Conceptualization of 'Xihuitl,' 2008, 34–35.]
ca. 1550–1563
Jeff Haskett-Wood
deities, deidades, fire, fuego, turquoise, turquesa, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl
Xiuhtecuhtli. Museo del Templo Mayor. Photograph by Robert Hasektt, 15 February 2023.
Xiuhtecuhtli, deity, the "old, old" god of fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiuhtecuhtli
xihui(tl(, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
tecuh(tli), a lord, an important nobleman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli
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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