Key Info

- Thirteen gods that ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens.

Brief Bio

In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin) are a set of thirteen gods that ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens. They were cyclical, so that the same god recurred every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are:

Xiuhtecuhtli: god of fire and time.

Tlaltecuhtli: goddess of the earth.

Chalchiuhtlicue: goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism.

Tonatiuh: god of the sun.

Tlazolteotl: goddess of lust, carnality, carnality misdeeds.

Mictlantecuhtli: god of the underworld.

Centeotl: god of maize. Also recognized as Chicomecoatl, goddess of agriculture.

Tlaloc: god of the thunder, rain and earthquakes.

Quetzalcoatl: god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, fertility, patron of the winds and the light, the lord of the West.

Tezcatlipoca: god of providence, matter and the invisible, ruler of the night, Great Bear, impalpable, ubiquity and the twilight, the lord of the North.

Mictecacihuatl: goddess of the underworld.

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli: god of dawn.

Citlalicue: goddess of the female stars (Milky Way).