TLAUIZCALPANTECUTLI = “LORD OF THE HOUSE OF THE DAWN”
- Area of Worship: Mexico; Toltec (?).
- Calendar Place: With the Fire-god, lord of the ninth week, ce coatl. Twelfth of the thirteen lords of the day-hours.
- Compass Direction: West.
- Relationship: Variant of Quetzalcoatl.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
General.—In the Codex Borgia (sheet 25) he is painted as having a white-and-red-striped body, and the black face with white-spotted quincunx peculiar to him in his special form as evening star. The hair is yellow, the locks rising in curls above the brow, and bound by a red fillet. We can probably recognize him in the figure seen in sheet 19 of Codex Vaticanus B, which bears a strong resemblance to that found on sheet 57 of the same MS., confronting the Fire-god; but in the first instance he is not shown with the black “half-mask” painting about the eye. He has, however, the same warlike implements—shield, spears, and atlatl—as in Codex Borgia, as well as a pouch for obsidian arrow-heads and a