Tezcatlipoca (The vowel transliterated here as [i] may in fact have been long or followed by a glottal stop which is sometimes written as an ) was a central deity in Aztec religion, one of the four sons of Ometeotl, he's associated with a wide range of concepts including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war and strife. His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as "… (More on Tezcatlipoca) |