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Four tezcatlipocas likes blood ketchup

Anddd Quetzalcoatl likes chocolate

His brother are fighting

Blood ketchup like mixing blood with tomatoes? Actually, yeah, kinda. I hc that the four gods (except for quetzalcoatl) need blood offerings to survive (kinda like vampires, but also a little different because they specifically need blood that was made as an offering), but they're pretty grossed out at the concept of just straight up drinking blood over the years. Hence why they try to make it into something that's actually edible.

Also yeah, Quetzalcoatl is very against human sacrifice, the snake boi just wants his chocolate

They fight about it sometimes

Hello I just wanted to know if you have any head canons of what shows the 4 Tezcatlipocas would watch :3

Hi, thanks for the ask! I think they would watch:

Animated movies so they can point out historical inaccuracies. They already do this with a couple of friends, but with their family, I think they actually like to watch the movies for the plot and action (not that they would tell anyone haha)

Murder mystery shows! They have a little game where they see who can figure out the murderer the fastest, and then the next person would try to beat that time (all of them are aiming to figure out the murderer's identity before the protagonist does)

Reality TV shows. Tezcatlipoca drags them to watch these.

Anyways, that's all I have for now because it's early morning for me, but I will be back with more (let me know if you would like to be tagged in the other hcs I will post eventually!)

I feel like Tecciztecatl and Xochipilli would be theater kids. IDC, it makes sense in my head.

Yes. Just yes.

Both are dramatic fuckers who are great at acting. YES.

Vasant x Xipe Totec hcs?? :DD

so sorry for not answering this earlier BUT

Very different dynamics, so they compliment each other well. Vasant is the flower boi we all know and love, and Xipe Totec is a witty and brutal force of nature (he DOES rip his skin off every spring...)

Vasant would be horrified when Xipe Totec tells him the needs to flay himself to bring about spring but Xipe Totec is like, "Well, you know, what works works."

They would both kill for each other.

They both have very similar tastes in music and movies!!

Once again, our favorite buddies Tezcatlipoca and Vishnu helped them meet each other.

How the conversation went: Tez: "So, my brother's a lil down recently ever since skinning himself---" Vishnu: "what?" Tez: "Well, he's a spring god, and he---" Vishnu, eyes shining: "Spring god, you say?"

They both love chocolate.

Xipe Totec has made a necklace of vines and gold for Vasant, Vasant has made him a wreath of spring flowers before!!! They're constantly making gifts for each other, and it's become a bit of a competition now.

That's all I have for now! You didn't specify whether it's romantic or platonic so I went with a set of hcs that encompassed both!

I love how Vishnu and Tezcatlipoca have an entire damn business revolving around intertwining the Aztec and Hindu pantheons evermore

Btw sorry for the long wait, this has been sitting in my ask box for like a week 😭

Honestly, I would love Aztec and Maya mythology to become more recognized, but I'm also a bit worried that people will butcher it, as it's happened with Greco-Roman and Norse mythology. Like, once an obscure pantheon gets a "big production", a lot of the time what happens is that the directors just grab a bunch of names and concepts then kinda do whatever they want.

I'd also like to see these indigenous characters actually speaking indigenous languages, since a lot of the time people underestimate just how much they're still used. You can actually learn them too: there's TikTok pages of Mexicans who teach Nahuatl, books on the topic, proper classes.... additionally, there's many people in Southern Mexico (e.g. Chiapas) who speak dialects of Maya on the regular.

Sorry, it's a bit pretentious maybe, but I would love to see something that's well-researched and feels earnest.

It doesn’t sound pretentious at all, I hate it when people butcher mythologies in media too! Most of the times, they act like if the mythology is obscure enough, they can do whatever they want with it (when this is not in fact true).

And yeah, more Aztec mythology (well researched of course) content in media sounds awesome!

Hey hey jeu hey heu heu hey

Mictlantecuhtli headcanons pretty please

Miso i mean me so i mean leto i mean mythos soup

Alright more hcs for my fav death god

Has a podcast about how things are in Mictlan. Sometimes he talks about current events that result in a high death toll, sometimes he gives virtual tours of the nine layers of Mictlan, sometimes he invites the other gods to make a cameo and hangs out with them!

One of the chillest gods out there. As long as you don't pull any of the "cheating death" shit or flat out insult/try to hurt him or his loved ones, you're fine.

However, if you do end up committing the transgressions above, he will End You™ (especially if you threaten his loved ones and friends)

He loves making puns, like Quetzalcoatl! Unlike Quetzalcoatl, he's actually good at making them (sorry Quetz, that's just how things are around here)

Before each soul passes on, Mictlantecuhtli has a quick chat with them (think alongside the lines of "hey pal, how'd you die? Cool, cool, alright I'm going to let you have a good afterlife now but you have to stay out of trouble with the gods alright? Fantastic, you're good to go, see you on the other side!")

It's kind of weird for most souls but Mictlantecuhtli is genuinely just a nice guy.

Kind of stuns everyone how much he breaks the death god stereotypes, and he loves it. He has a t-shirt that says "I single handedly saved my fellow employees' reputation and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".

Good artist. He's got time to kill sometimes, and he likes to sketch.

That's it for now, but I'll come up with more later!

(Also @si-chan1 I know you asked to be tagged in hcs, so sorry I didn't do it for older hc posts I didn't see your request 😭 anyway here)

Hi!, this is anon who asked you what type of music the 4 tezcatlipocas would listen to. This will be a long question so take your time reading it you don’t need to answer it right away :)

Am here, to ask about how you and your buddies sort y’all’s information about not only Aztec but other pantheons, as well the country/culture that pantheon is from.

Am creating a story about characters getting chosen or trained to be a god's “champion” like they’re here to represent the god and help people by fighting monsters. Some champions aren’t gonna be the same as their god (for example Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl don’t usually get along with one another, but their champions do. Huitzilopochtli is more stoic and quiet while his champion is more outgoing and fun)

You can send this question to other blogs that tackle mythology too or could send ideas about some character designs they wish people added into a mythology series

You can call me pen anon for now thank you :)

-🖋️anon

Heya pen anon! Side note before I start rambling I really enjoyed your last ask :D

I just want to start by saying that your idea seems awesome, it's a great and creative concept (is it going to be posted anywhere? I'd definitely want to check it out when it's done if thats possible haha)! I also want to say that I'm still learning about Aztec mythology and the countless myths and I'm still learning about a lot of them (same goes for other mythologies!)

As for getting information, all you need to do is a quick google search for different gods and myths. Some sources are more official and go into more depth about different aspects of the mythology, whilst others just give a brief recap. For Aztec mythology, I recommend you to go to mayaincaaztec.com and click on "aztec religion".

Another source of information is Youtube. Specifically, I like the channel "overly sarcastic productions" because they organize different myths into 15-20 min videos and also make it humorous, fun, and enjoyable to watch.

As for organizing information, I'm not very good at it lol I kind of just remember random stuff. But there are going to be myths that are more famous and spoken about such as the Aztec five suns myth or greek heroes like achilles and Hercules, etc etc. And then there are going to be myths that are more obscure myths, like those that entail the creation of a certain plant or animal or such. If you're going to write a story, I recommend making a google docs or just memorizing which of the bigger myths you want to have play a bigger impact on the gods' personalities + their relationships with one another, and which ones will just be cool "oh yeah I did that once" memories for them.

Again im kind of unorganized lol, so this is the best advice I have, sorry. Thanks for the ask!

Tagging my mythology buddies to see if they want to share their methods:

@h0bg0blin-meat

@mythos-soup

@15pantheons

Tezcatlipoca: "I lost a bet." 

Tezcatlipoca: The second-most ominous phrase in existence. 

Quetzalcoatl: What's the first? 

Tezcatlipoca: "Let's make a bet."

Huitzilopochtli: I didn’t even realize how sarcastic I was being. It’s starting to become a problem, I think.

Huitzilopochtli: I’m never donating blood ever again. 

Huitzilopochtli: The second you walk through the door, it’s just one invasive question after another! 

Huitzilopochtli: ‘Where did you get it?’ 'Why is it in a bucket?’ I mean, do you want it or not?

(@godsofhumanity sorry for the tag but the huitzilopochtli vampire allegations started with you so I thought you might like this one :D)

Perun: You’re… a vampire?

Huitzilopochtli: I can confirm that I am not a vampire as I have blood.

Ares: Is it your blood?

Huitzilopochtli: It is blood, yes.

Freyja: Is it blood that has always belonged to you, from the moment of your spawning?

Huitzilopochtli: It is blood, it is in my possession, therefore it is my blood.

tezcatlipoca hcs pls? (They don't need to be about any particular subject it can just be general or silly hcs about him)

okieee silly hc's because i've already done serious ones here :))

one thing about Tezcatlipoca is i think he is really petty, and his favourite hobby is doing everything opposite to Quetzalcoatl.

so like.. if Quetzalcoatl says ''i think it's time for a new sun'', he will adamantly try and convince everyone that it is NOT time for a new sun even if he doesn't even believe that himself.

yes, he is editing wikipedia to prove his arguments correct.

also, he's super good liar so i think he often just spurts out any nonsense from the top of his head, but because he delivers it with such a serious face, i think many of the gods believe him.

Huitzilopochtli falls victim to these lies most often, but he is getting BETTER and picking out Tez's little falsehoods :))

if he watched TV, his favourite genre would be drama, no doubt. like the bad, bold & the beautiful type drama.

i think he'd send letters and stuff to the writers of the shows to say how they treated certain plotlines absolutely terribly and it would be paired with very colourful language and hilarious insults.

um, i think i've mentioned in my previous hcs that i think Tezcatlipoca is pretty much always seen with a jaguar. he has a pet one (read: several), and they all have the same temperament as him.

i like the idea of these jaguars lazing around everywhere.. sometimes they will sleep in Quetzalcoatl's favourite chair and they will NOT MOVE and there is nothing Quetzalcoatl can do about it... Tez may or may not have trained them to do this.

Xipe Totec: They... well, I wouldn't call it inheritance per se. What do you call it when you kill someone and get their stuff?  Quetzalcoatl: Um, murder???  Huitzilopochtli: Adventuring!  Tezcatlipoca: Tuesday.

Quetzalcoatl: I’m gonna die alone.  Tezcatlipoca: Quetzalcoatl, you’re not gonna die alone.  Quetzalcoatl: Xipe Totec, was my safety net, okay? They have better things to do and now I have to get a snake.  Huitzilopochtli: Uh-huh. Why is that?  Quetzalcoatl: If I’m gonna be an old lonely person, I’m gonna need a thing, you know? A hook. Like that guy in the subway who eats his own face.  Quetzalcoatl: So I figured I’ll be “Crazy Man With A Snake”, you know? Crazy snake man.  Quetzalcoatl: Then I’ll get more snakes, call them my babies. Kids won’t walk past my place, they will run! RUN AWAY FROM CRAZY SNAKE MAN!

Quetzalcoatl: You are now one day closer to eating your next plate of nachos.  Xipe Totec: That's the most hopeful thing I've ever heard.  Huitzilopochtli: But what if I die tomorrow and never eat any nachos?  Tezcatlipoca: Then tomorrow is nacho lucky day.

Day 21. The prompt today was Mesoamerican mythology. I ran into a problem with this one; mainly, there seems to be a huge gap in the scholarship about folkloric monsters in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures. Oh, sure, I found lots of gods and the like, but defining gods as monsters seems like dodgy territory to me. If anyone knows of non-divine supernatural creatures or spirits from those cultures, please send them my way, because now I have The Curiosity.

In light of not finding a huge amount of material to work from, I went with the idea that dogs, and specifically the Xoloitzcuintli dog, was believed to be a guide to the underworld. Now, psychopomps aren’t monsters strictly speaking, and the god associated with the dogs, Xolotl, isn’t a monster either, but there you go.

Dry media to mitigate page buckling.

Feathered Serpent

Cool colour shading... Why it so... Ugh...

I think a lot of us know that The Axolotl is likely a reference to an Aztec God (Xolotl, god of - among other things - fire, twins, misfortune, and death) but did you know Xolotl had a twin brother himself? Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. God of knowledge, creativity, and learning.

A scapegoat twin blamed for everything that goes wrong in life, who is connected to fire, and possibly even represents an old practice of sacrificing one twin's life for the other's: And a highly regarded twin who's domain is knowledge and is favored over his brother to the point of sometimes even having the epithet of "Precious Twin"...

Now where have I heard that before?

"Te vas? No. ALAS ROTAS"

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In this short adventure, Lantern Jaw expands his mind and takes on the guise of pre-Columbian deity figures.

Where will his quest for enlightenment and peace take him next??? Tune in next time to The Lantern Jaw Chronicles!