Tezcatlipoca – Tezcatlipoca, Aztec god of night sky, hurricanes, obsidian, and conflict.
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Tezcatlipoca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca used to be the Sanitation Engineer at the Arcanum before he stole two Opossum Eggs from Jaki Whisperwind. He has trained the Opossum Yolyamanitzin in battle. Your Balance wizard must defeat both in combat to receive your level 118 balance pet.
Tezcatlipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion. He is associated with a variety of concepts, including the night sky, hurricanes, obsidian, and conflict. He was considered one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the primordial dual deity. His main festival was Toxcatl, which, like most religious festivals of Aztec culture, involved human sacrifice.
Tezcatlipoca’s nagual, his animal counterpart, was the jaguar. In the form of a jaguar he became the deity Tepeyollotl (“Mountainheart”). In one of the two main Aztec calendars (the Tonalpohualli), Tezcatlipoca ruled the trecena; he was also patron of the days with the name Acatl (“reed”). A strong connection with the calendar as a whole is suggested by his depiction in texts such as the Codex Borgia and Codex Fejéváry-Mayer, where Tezcatlipoca is surrounded by day signs, implying a sort of mastery over them.
A talisman related to Tezcatlipoca was a disc worn as a chest pectoral, called the anahuatl. This talisman was carved out of abalone shell and depicted on the chest of both Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca in codex illustrations.
The origins of Tezcatlipoca can be traced to earlier Mesoamerican deities worshipped by the Olmec and Maya. Similarities exist between Tezcatlipoca and the patron deity of the K’iche’ Maya, Tohil, as described in the Popol Vuh. The name Tohil refers to obsidian and he was associated with sacrifice. The Classic Maya god of rulership and thunder, K’awiil, (known to modern Mayanists as “God K”, or the “Manikin Scepter”) was depicted with a smoking obsidian knife in his forehead and one leg replaced with a snake. Although there are striking similarities between possible earlier imagery of Tezcatlipoca, archaeologists and art historians are split in the debate. It is possible that he is the same god that the Olmec and Maya term their “jaguar deity”, or alternately that he is an Aztec expansion on foundations set by the Olmec and Maya, as the Aztecs routinely took deliberate inspiration from earlier Mesoamerican cultures.
Tezcatlipoca is often translated from the Nahuatl as “smoking mirror.” It alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica. They were used for shamanic rituals and prophecy, and as such Tezcatlipoca is additionally associated with divination.
Given the translation of his name, it can be inferred that Tezcatlipoca is somehow connected to the Smoking Mirror Zombies. How and why is unknown at this time.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
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