Cult of Gods

Tonatiuh

Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
the fifth sun
Symbols and attributes
Sun disk
Codex Borbonicus, p. 9, a Mexica calendar book painted around the time of the Spanish conquest.
Codex Borbonicus, p. 9, a Mexica calendar book painted around the time of the Spanish conquest.

Key myth

The sun of the current age, who must be fed with blood to keep moving. In the Legend of the Suns, the gods sacrificed themselves at Teotihuacan so that the sun would rise.

Primary sources

  • Leyenda de los Soles
  • Florentine Codex Book 7

All sources for the Aztec (Mexica) pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

OmeteotlTezcatlipocaQuetzalcoatlCoatlicueTlalocChalchiuhtlicueMictlantecuhtliMictecacihuatlXipe TotecXochiquetzalHuitzilopochtliCoyolxauhquiTonatiuh

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.Hindu

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Tonatiuh: the sun and light. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Atum

creator, the completed one

Egyptian

Ra

sun, kingship, order

Hindu

Agni

fire, the sacrifice, messenger of the gods

Celtic (Irish)

Lugh

skill in all arts, kingship, the sun (in later readings)

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