Chantico Blue Air – Chantico (Aztecan Diety) & Blue Air (Defunct Romanian Air Line)
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Chantico_Blue_Air
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Air
At first believing your wizard to be a a minion of Shadow, Chantico fights you. After convincing the captain of the Avian forces at Zultun Dock that you are not working with the Shadow Queen, he enlists your aid in defeating Shadow. Eventually he sends you to Alto Alto Village.
In Aztec religion, Chantico (“she who dwells in the house”) is the deity reigning over the fires in the family hearth. She broke a fast by eating paprika with roasted fish, and was turned into a dog by Tonacatecuhtli as punishment. She was associated with the town of Xochimilco, stonecutters, as well as warriorship. Chantico was described in various Pre-Columbian and colonial codices.
According to texts from the informants of Bernardino de Sahagún, Chantico was worshipped in a temple known as a tetlanman, in which priests prepared “red and black pigments, sandals, a robe, and small marine snails” for Chantico’s feast. Chantico was also worshipped in the twenty ninth building of Templo Mayor according to Sahagún. According to Fray Juan de Torquemada, Chantico was also worshipped in a temple constructed by Moquihuix, ruler of Tlatelolco, in an attempt to conquer Tenochtitlan.
During the Aztec empire, Chantico held strong associations to military forces. According to inquisitorial records, Moctezuma reportedly used an idol effigy of Chantico that had a removable leg with which one would pound the earth in order to curse Hernán Cortés’s advances into the Aztec Empire.
Blue Air was a Romanian low-cost airline headquartered in Bucharest, with its former hub at Henri Coandă International Airport. It was the largest Romanian airline by scheduled passengers flown. In 2017, Blue Air carried over 5 million passengers, a 40% increase over the 3.6 million passengers flown the previous year. As of September 2022, Blue Air served 75 scheduled destinations in 21 countries.
Blue Air was forced to suspend all operations on September 6, 2022 and didn’t resume any flights since. As of November 2022, its license had also been suspended and the dormant airline was nationalized in December 2022.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
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