God of the Month: Tezcatlipoca

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Hi! I’ve noticed that Tezcatlipoca is often synchronized with other, more more minor gods, like Tepeyollotl and Macuiltotec. Would it be accurate to assume that these are other forms of Tezcatlipoca?

The Aztec Gods have reoccurred. Quetzalcoatl in the 52 year cycle was born in 1935 and is currently living in London with Xolotl his double, we believe him to have been born in Germany or one of the Scandinavian countries, and they have fallen and chosen evil, they and their dark forces were behind 911 & 7/7 bombings and so much more. Quetzalcoatl may show himself to the world in 2012 although he is already here but is hidden from the masses. Tezcatlipoca will arrive soon after or before this we hope and will deal with Quetzalcoatl & all evil on earth, and whatever was said about Tezcatlipoca in the past, Tezcatlipoca is a God of Good and there will be no more human sacrificing, and Tezcatlipoca will make the world an idyllic place to live, because he can, and he remove all evil from earth. The war to end all wars will happen in 2039 when Tezcatlipoca will win and end all evil on earth, once and for all. The Aztec prophecies were destroyed by the Spanish Christian army by the order of Quetzalcoatl, for if the truth be known, no one would follow or worship Quetzalcoatl. Ometeotl spoke to my broth and myself on the 22-09-2010 and has given us “The Good Word” to release to the world as this will lift all dark or negative energy from a person mind and end Quetzalcoatl’s mind control over them, but we can only release The Creator’s good word live and to the world so it is not corrupted by the dark forces or evil beings may try to take credit for it, but The Media is not taking us seriously so we are going to number 10 Downing Street on the 8th September 2011 (weather permitting) in person as the world really needs The Creators help now as human being do not have a chance against the influence of Quetzalcoatl & his dark forces powers.

This is wrong we never believed in gods whatsoever. Tezcatlipoca (tezcatl)mirror poca(smokey)
wheres the god in it? we believed in pure metaphors tezcatlipoca is your conscious your self reflection of who you are inside. my tezcatlipoca conscious woke up when i learned about my culture and became a mesheekah. i spoke to a nahuatl man who is fluent in nahuatl we were talking about how we didnt believe in gods and how they were all pure metaphors. the spanish did not understand the beauty of our culture and everything to them was the devil. these metaphors helped us understand the creater Ometeotl. the dual cosmic energy that keeps the world in motion.

Regarding Tezcatlipoca:
The Aztec god named Tezcatlipoca known as “Obsidian Mirror” or “Smoking Mirror”” represents a god who could see the entire world in the reflection of his mirror. In Aztec culture the jaguar is the supreme symbol of the underworld and was the animal guise of the god Tezcatlipoca Quetzalcoatl’s opposite or evil twin who like the goggled eyed Tlaloc also represents a were jaguar and the Evening Star aspect of the planet Venus.
Maya vase paintings depict bundle rituals and vase ceremonies (mushroom beverage) in which rulers or priests with painted red lips speak and stare into the obsidian mirror, magic mirrors that conjured up fire from the suns rays, and opened sacred portals to the underworld.
In a letter to my father Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi (March 31, 1953), mycologist R. Gordon Wasson mentions that the mushroom may be an iconograph for the making of fire. Wasson writes that in all primitive communities firemaking is a focus of acute attention, and often attended by transcendental associations. He points out that in many parts of the world primitive people have hit on dried fungi as the ideal primary tinder for firemaking and that the god ivoked in the making of fire and the god of fire itself might be identical. He notes that In Greece Ixion was the fire-making god, and Wasson suggests that in one Etruscan mirror representing this god he found the fungus that was also perhaps his symbol.
The rivalry between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca as dualistic opposites symbolizes the conflicts which existed between the civilized Toltecs and the rest of the Nahua people. In times of famine or plague the ancient Mexicans fully believed that Tezcatlipoca possessed the supreme power of life and death and that universal prayer was made to Tezcatlipoca indicating the important position he occupied in Mexican mythology. A god of sorcery, Tezcatlipoca “Smoking Mirror” was the god who tricked Quetzalcoatl into leaving his beloved city of Tollan/Tula... A god whose symbol of power was an obsidian or smoking mirror upon his head and who’s foot transforms into a serpent.
The Maya version of Tezcatlipoca was the god named K’awil also known as God K, G II and Tohil. K’awil has also been referred to as “Obsidian Mirror” or ”Smoking Mirror” because he is depicted with an obsidian mirror in his fore head which emanates a spiritual force which resonates like smoke in the form of a vision serpent. K’awil may have been conjured through rituals which involved the consumption of mushrooms and other hallucagens using mirrors to summon his divine presence.
Gordon Wasson wrote in a letter to my father archaeologist Stephan F. de Borhegyi, that mushrooms were only consumed after their ritual decapitation from the stem, and that the stems of the mushroom were never eaten, and that the mushrooms were never chewed, but swallowed. The one leggedness of K’awil and Tezcatlipoca may in fact be derived from the stem of the mushroom.
In Aztec culture the jaguar is the underworld spirit, and the animal guise of the god Tezcatlipoca. K’awil’s Nahua (Mexican) counterpart is the goggled eyed Tlaloc who is also identified with the jaguar and the underworld, and like K’awil’s brother Chac are both associated with lighting and the planet Venus. It was believed that objects such as stone axehead, flint and obsidian as well as mushrooms were all products of lighting when lighting strikes the earth. Gordon Wasson wrote that it was believed by the people of Mexico that from the energy of lighting, and the Moon mushrooms sprouted from the underworld. K’awil name also means “life’s sustenance”. K’awil is often depicted in Maya vase paintings as the so-called Vision Serpent, a bearded dragon from which deified ancestors and K’awil emerges. He is a dualistic god, a divine portal materialized from lighting, mushrooms and blood sacrifice.
Similar to Tezcatlipoca, K’awil can always be identified by his one legged serpent foot, manifested by lighting energy. K’awil represents a Maya version of a cosmic serpent or double headed serpent linked with his brother Chac also connected with lighting and the ritual of decapitation and the planet Venus. K’awil is a Mayanized version of Quetzalcoatl known to the Quiche Maya as the Sovereign Plumed Serpent and to the Maya of Yucatan as Kukulcan, or Feathered Serpent. There fore its presumed that K’awil and Chac, who are both linked to serpents and lighting are another version of Sovereign Plumed Serpent and Heart of the Sky, named Hurricane in the Popol Vuh. They are the trinity of gods referred to in the Popol Vuh. “Three came into existence”, Thunderbolt Hurricane who came first, than Newborn Thunderbolt came second followed by Raw Thunderbolt, referring to the three hearth stones or gods of Maya creation that were placed into the night sky.
”So there were three of them, as the Heart of the Sky, who came to the Sovereign Plumed Serpent, when the Dawn of Life was conceived” (Popol Vuh).
Carl de Borhegyi

Who is the god Tezcatlipoca ?

The opposite or alter ego of Quetzalcoatl was the god Tezcatlipoca, a god who symbolized the night sky, who never grows old (Quetzalcoatl is most commonly depicted as an aged deity), and his mirror reflects the dark side of evil that is within us all. The mythological conflicts between these to gods have been characterized as the good and pure Quetzalcoatl (Morning Star resurrection god) verses the evil Tezcatlipoca. Tezcatlipoca (Evening Star aspect of Venus) was the giver and taker away of life, and with his magic mirror, he could stare into the hearts and souls of men. A supreme god of the Aztecs, Tezcatlipoca which means “smoking mirror” was the patron god of sorcery and war and was the patron god of the ruling dynasty.
Pre-Conquest stories describe how Quetzalcoatl was responsible for the creation and destruction of the world along with his sometime competitor Tezcatlipoca. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca were mythical brothers (dualistic opposites) who fought violently with each other and with each battle one of the four world ages is destroyed and replaced by another, each taking turns vanquishing each other. The fifth and final age is ruled by Tezcatlipoca, leaving the door open for Quetzalcoatl triumphant return.

In the Aztec legend of the Fifth Sun there is a part which is not found in the Quiche’s creation story in the Popol Vuh, the belief that this fifth sun which currently gives us light, was to die, like the other suns, only not by flood or by fire but destroyed by earthquakes on the day called 4-Earthquake. In the legend of the suns the death of the sun fell on the day that carried the numeral 4 which occurred for the Mayas on day that fell on the day 4 Ahau.

The prophecy of a great flood that caused the end of the world was described for us in great detail in the Popol Vuh a book written by the Highland Quiche Maya at the time of the Spanish conquest.
According to the Popol Vuh, at the end of the last world age, many people were drowned and those who did not die were changed into monkeys. It was the god Hurakan (Heart of Heaven) (aka…Tezcatlipoca ?) who caused the mighty flood that wiped out the last creation, the same god who is said to have created the earth along with Gukumatz (Quetzalcoatl) the Feathered Serpent. In the Codex Rios the events of the past world’s destruction in Aztec mythology are depicted, showing a feathered serpent, along with a fire serpent Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. The constant clashing of opposing forces seems to be the fundamental concept of pre-Columbian thought, and is expressed in mythology predominantly in the clashes between Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, and in the symbolism of the eagle and the jaguar. Together they represent the cyclical order of life from death.

Because all of Mesoamerica shared a similar legend of the creation of this world and of our present sun and depending on the time period and culture the story can vary, so I will refer to the creation story recorded in the Codex Chimalpopoca of Central Mexico.

The first of these worlds, was known as 4-Water and was ruled by a water goddess named Chalchiuhtlicue. This world was destroyed when it was engulfed by a great flood, some of the people where saved by being transformed into fish. The second world was known as 4-Jaguar, it was ruled by the god named Tezcatlipoca and that this world came to an end when the sun fell from the sky and set the world ablaze. With no sun to shine, the remaining people were left in darkness and eaten by jaguars. The third world was known as 4-Rain, and was ruled by the god named Tlaloc but this world was destroyed by a great rain of fire and gravel. The forth sun was known as Four Wind and was ruled by a god named Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl. This age came to an end when a great wind blew the people off the face of the earth. Some of the people survived but they were changed into monkeys (monkeys have a close connection with Quetzalcoatl) who scattered themselves in the forests and mountains. The current age of the fifth sun known as 4-Motion, represents our present world and sun, which ends or comes to a close in 2012, this according to the GMT correlation of the Maya Long Count Calendar (see 2012 Alert !! at mushroomstone.com). The prophecy foretold is that our world and sun will be destroyed by earthquakes and famine and that bloodthirsty demon would hunt for humans and that if any humans managed to survive they would be quickly turned into animals.
In order to set in motion the Fifth Sun, all the gods from Teotihuacan lined up one by one to be sacrificed by a god named Quetzalcoatl. They all were willing to have their hearts torn out so as to give the new sun new life, nourishment in the form of blood and because of this sacred act; both the sun and the moon were set in motion and raised into the sky. Stressing the sacrificial nature of creation, by the gods from Teotihuacan it was from this act that the world and the new sun was created and that in return for this gift of life and the secret to immortality, death being the door, sacrifices were to be made to the gods of the underworld responsible for death rebirth and resurrection in the underworld.

Wonderful. Smoking Mirror - definitely my favourite Aztec God. Just those images - smoking mirror, the north sky and fate - all wrapped up in a warrior god - one of the deepest and most enigmatic of all gods from around the world.