NATURE AND STATUS
See Mictlantecutli.
TEPEYOLLOTL = “HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS”
- Area of Worship: Tierras Calientes.
- Relationship: One of the Tzitzimimê.
- Symbols: A cave (see Codex Borgia, sheet 2). A marine shell (Codex Borbonicus). See also Seler, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, vol. i, p. 606, for glyph in Codex Bologna (Cospi).
- Calendar Place: Eighth of the lords of the night; ruler of the third day, and of the third week, ce mazatl.
- Compass Direction: South.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
In Codices Fejérváry-Mayer and Vaticanus B the face-paint of this god is red, and in the latter MS. has the alternate red and yellow cross-bars of the red Tezcatlipocâ. In Codex Borgia the body is painted black, but in this MS., as well as in the Aubin tonalamatl, the upper part of the face resembles that of Quetzalcoatl in its decoration, the profile being of a light colour, while the temporal region is painted differently, these colours in the Aubin tonalamatl being separated by a black line. But whereas the temporal colouring in the Vienna MS. is green,