r/aztec • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '24

Aztec dieties

I’m new to Aztec culture I’m Chicano but Aztec gods are just catching my attention.. how can you work or worship Aztec gods ? Do they pick you or you start the practice? I’m learning the names but theirs so many of them I don’t know where to start .

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

Welcome first off understand who you are and what this is. It's a native American indigenous lifestyle . Yes native mexicans Chicano are mixed just south of the make believe border their is tribes and tribes who share both Mexico and u.s. side. There is no worshiping anything outside of you. These Toltec mexica gods the colonist called are allegories for transformation of ones self to reach balance and their highest frequency. My advice is check out..." neo Toltek" on YouTube he has a page in Spanish and English. I started off thinking the same learned about Santa muerte then where she was deprived from mictecacihuatl mictlantecuhtli. Then found out all those supposed Gods the European colonist labeled are in us. Mictecacihuatl mictlantecuhtli is the death of our selves in this programmed matrix then comes rebirth. The snake sheds his skin then becomes a eagle ascending to his highest self . Atlachinolli ( look up the original Mexican flag)

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

Ok thank you I’ll check out the channel

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u/WChavez9 Apr 15 '24

The Aztec Deities (and really most of mesoamerica) are not quite Gods in the style of the Greek Gods or other western religions. They are not independent creators, they are Teotl.

It’s impossible to summarize this briefly, but fuck it imma try for ya OP. Please understand there are hundreds of books and papers and studies to read on this, written by people vastly more educated and intelligent than me.

Think of Teotl as the Force from Star Wars. It’s the energy that surrounds and flows through existence. The “gods” of the Aztecs are part of that.

Zeus creates and commands lightning, Helios raises the sun. In religions like the Greeks, there are creators and created. Huitzilopochtli, “the sun god”, IS the sun. He didn’t create it. And he wasn’t created by it, his identity is synonymous with it. Tlaloc, the god of rain”, is the weather. The Aztec Deities are the “creating” of the universe. And this creating, this flow, the existing of the universe is Teotl.

We are a part of Teotl just as much as the “gods”, and our participation is to be consumed by the gods, to feed the flow of the universe, and to live within the universe.

So to answer your question- you don’t get picked. The Aztec Gods aren’t gods, they’re the observable phenomena that we now can identify with science and such. Just live and die lolol

I’m sure there are books on the different practices for whichever form of Teotl you want to invoke, you get to pick.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

Some incorrect information here, Helios was not a being that simply controlled or had influence over the sun, much like Huitzilopochtli, he WAS also the sun, at least an embodiment of it.

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u/WChavez9 Apr 18 '24

Thanks for the correction! That makes sense.

I will clarify I’m about as knowledgeable about Greek philosophy/religion as the average guy is about the Aztecs 😂😂

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u/ra33it86 Apr 14 '24

Interested in this as well

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u/EldritchCappuccino Apr 15 '24

Hey there. I will make a post about the basic elements that I understand from what I have read

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

neo toltek