Xiuhcoatl Barbed Tooth – Xiuhcoatl
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Cantares Five Flowers is concerned about the local wise man, Zope Broad Seer, and sends you to find him. After following his trail, you discover that he is being held by Xiuhcoatl Barbed Tooth.
“I’m coming to get you, Wizard! No matter what you do, I’ll keep coming with my bloodthirsty lust for Wizard FLESH!” – Xiuhcoatl Barbed Tooth
In Aztec religion, Xiuhcoatl [ʃiʍˈkoːaːt͡ɬ] was a mythological serpent, regarded as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the Aztec fire deity sometimes represented as an atlatl or a weapon wielded by Huitzilopochtli. Xiuhcoatl is a Classical Nahuatl word that translates as “turquoise serpent” and also carries the symbolic and descriptive translation of “fire serpent”.
in the Mexican Gallery of the British Museum, London.
Xiuhcoatl was a common subject of Aztec art, including illustrations in Aztec codices, and was used as a back ornament on representations of both Xiuhtecuhtli and Huitzilopochtli. Xiuhcoatl is interpreted as the embodiment of the dry season and was the weapon of the sun. Apparently, the royal diadem (or xiuhuitzolli, “pointed turquoise thing”) of the Aztec emperors represented the tail of the Xiuhcoatl, the fire serpent.
Xiuhcoatl was considered to be the nahual, or spirit form, of the Aztec fire deity Xiuhtecuhtli. It was a lightning-like weapon borne by Huitzilopochtli. With it, soon after his birth, he pierced his sister Coyolxauhqui, destroying her, and also defeated the Centzon Huitznahua. This Xiuhcoatl wielded by Huitzilopochtli symbolizes the forces of darkness being driven out by the fiery rays of the sun.
Tonatiuh, the sun god, was guided across the sky by Xiuhcoatl and was used by him as a weapon against his underworld enemies, the stars, and the moon.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
Xiuhcoatl Barbed Tooth image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Aztec sculpture of Xiuhcoatl image is copyright Simon Burchell. It is borrowed from Wikipedia and shared under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons license.
Huitzilopochtli as depicted in the Codex Borbonicus is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
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