Cipactli – Cipactli
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Cipactli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipactli
Zen Zen Seven Star has helped your wizard prepare a war challenge for Cipactli. Once all the pieces are assembled, Zen Zen sends you in. You need to defeat Cipactli to gain the Azure Moon Stone so you can enchant the Pyramid Key.
Cipactli is impressed with your War Challenge, though he expected you to be taller. He has prepared his greatest spells to destroy you. He welcomes you into his maw to strike the fear from your heart.
Do I smell your fear? Fear is a disease. It poisons the spirit. Let me help you strike it from your heart. Come into my maw, and do not be afraid!
Cipactli
Cipactli, in Classical Nahuatl, means “crocodile” or “caiman”. In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile symbolized the earth floating in the primeval waters. According to one Aztec tradition, Teocipactli “Divine Crocodile” was the name of a survivor of the flood who rescued himself in a canoe and again repopulated the earth.
In Aztec mythology, Cipactli was a primeval sea monster, part crocodilian, part fish, and part toad or frog, with indefinite gender. Always hungry, every joint on its body was adorned with an extra mouth. The deity Tezcatlipoca sacrificed a foot when he used it as bait to draw the monster nearer. He and Quetzalcoatl created the earth from its body.
Among the Formative-period Olmec and the pre-Hispanic Maya peoples, crocodilians were identified with rain-bringing wind, probably because of the widespread belief that wind and rain clouds are “breathed” out of cave openings in the earth. A series of Olmec-style basreliefs from Chalcatzingo in the state of Morelos portrays crocodilians breathing rain clouds from their upturned mouths. Portable green stone Olmec sculptures depict crocodilians in similar positions, indicating that they are probably also breathing.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
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