Tezcatlipoca

Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Key myth

'Smoking mirror', a god of conflict and chance, adversary of Quetzalcoatl. In the Toltec cycle he drives Quetzalcoatl out of Tula by trickery.

Where sources differ or caution applies. Sources conflict about the parents of the four creator gods.

Lineage in the sources used: Ometeotl.

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Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Tezcatlipoca: trickery, boundaries and travel, war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse