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Both ends could be rounded or pointed, but other designs were made with a blade attached to a handle. It can be represented with the top half red, reminiscent of the color of <a href="/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>, in representations of <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifice</a> and the rest white, indicating the color of the flint blade.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was the sign of the eighteenth day, the twentieth day of the month of the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar" title="Aztec calendar">Aztec calendar</a> and the beginning of one of the twenty <a href="/wiki/Trecena" title="Trecena">trecenas</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tonalpohualli" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonalpohualli">tonalpohualli</a>. </p><p>The Tecpatl knife was traditionally used for human sacrifice by the Aztecs, but it also was the short-range weapon of the <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_warrior" title="Jaguar warrior">jaguar warriors</a>. Although it may have seen only limited use on the battlefield, its sharp edges would have made it an effective sidearm. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythical_origin_of_Tecpatl">Mythical origin of Tecpatl</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Mythical origin of Tecpatl"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Xipe_Totec_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Xipe_Totec_1.jpg/220px-Xipe_Totec_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Xipe_Totec_1.jpg/330px-Xipe_Totec_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Xipe_Totec_1.jpg/440px-Xipe_Totec_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="649" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Xipe_Totec" title="Xipe Totec">Xipe Totec</a>, carrying a bloody tecpatl. (<a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Tecpatl, is one of the most complex <a href="/wiki/Iconographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Iconographic">iconographic</a> symbols of <a href="/wiki/Aztec_mythology" title="Aztec mythology">Aztec mythology</a>. This knife expresses multiple meanings that carry a complex view of the world which are closely associated with the notions of origin and <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifice</a>. </p><p>The Tecpatl was born in the height of heaven shaped as a knife, and was thrown down by his brother, and it was destined to descend from heaven to Earth. It falls in <a href="/wiki/Chicomoztoc" title="Chicomoztoc">Chicomoztoc</a> (The Place of the Seven Caves) primary array of peoples, fragmenting into 1600 pieces, and from those fragments a thousand and six hundred gods emerge, the first gods on Earth. These gods emerging from the Seven Caves are the <a href="/wiki/Centzonmimixcoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Centzonmimixcoa">Centzonmimixcoa</a> (four hundred cloud snakes, or “countless cloud snakes” - in Nāhuatl, 400 is used to express being countless). This is confirmed by another version of the myth where the Flint serves as a temporary event marker, appearing as a calendar date, as a carrier of the year Centzonmimixcoa are born: "In year 1 Tecpatl Centzonmimixcoa were born, Iztac <a href="/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue" title="Chalchiuhtlicue">Chalchiuhtlicue</a> (She of the Jade Skirt) begat the fourhundreth mixcohua. Then they went into a cave; and upon entering, their mother gave birth to five more Mimixcoa".<i><sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i> </p><p>In the version of the Legend of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Suns" title="Five Suns">Five Suns</a>, Tecpatl becomes temporal marker of the birth of the Centzonmimixcoa, and the name of the mother goddess switches to Iztac <a href="/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue" title="Chalchiuhtlicue">Chalchiuhtlicue</a>(She of the Jade Skirt). </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Bernardino_de_Sahag%C3%BAn" title="Bernardino de Sahagún">Bernardino de Sahagún</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diego_Dur%C3%A1n" title="Diego Durán">Diego Durán</a> they present the homology between this myth and ritual. "Among the ornaments worn by the women representing <a href="/wiki/Cihuacoatl" class="mw-redirect" title="Cihuacoatl">Cihuacoatl</a> at parties, they also brought a crib on their back, so to bring your child in it, and stood in the <a href="/wiki/Tianguis" title="Tianguis">tianguis</a> among the other women, and disappearing left the crib there . When the other women looked at what was in it, it was a flint and iron were sandeel , with which they killed those whom they sacrificed." Meanwhile, Duran tells his priests" sought a child cot and put into it a flint knife with which they sacrificed the one they called the son of Cihuacoatl." </p><p>In the version where the Centzonmimixcoa are born from the Tecpatl, the mother's name is <a href="/wiki/Citlalinicue" class="mw-redirect" title="Citlalinicue">Citlalinicue</a>. In the version that is temporary marker Tecpatl birth, the mother is Iztac <a href="/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue" title="Chalchiuhtlicue">Chalchiuhtlicue</a>, and in rites the mother of Tecpatl is Cihuacoatl. Three different invocations of the primordial mothers: skirt stars, She of the Jade Skirt, the snake woman who is at once a warrior deity, Tecpatl mother of the fourhundreth Centonmimixcoa born, the first gods on earth, in <a href="/wiki/Chicomoztoc" title="Chicomoztoc">Chicomoztoc</a>, the womb of the peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_in_Aztec_mythology">Tecpatl in Aztec mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tecpatl in Aztec mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Signo_T%C3%A9cpatl.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Signo_T%C3%A9cpatl.png" decoding="async" width="193" height="193" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="193" /></a><figcaption>Tecpatl (sacrificial knife), image based on the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Aztec_mythology" title="Aztec mythology">Aztec mythology</a>, the tecpatl was sometimes drawn as a simple flint blade, sharpened with some notches on the edge, in the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a> it appears red.<sup id="cite_ref-Instituto_Cultural_Quetzalcoatl_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Instituto_Cultural_Quetzalcoatl-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tecpatl was associated with Northern <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_direction" title="Cardinal direction">cardinal</a> point (<a href="/wiki/Mictlan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlan">Mictlan</a>).,<sup id="cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tlacatiliztonalli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the dark place of eternal stillness and rest of the dead. </p><p>The ancient <a href="/wiki/Anahuac_(Aztec)" title="Anahuac (Aztec)">Anahuac</a>, considered the Tecpatl as a symbol of <a href="/wiki/Xiuhtecuhtli" title="Xiuhtecuhtli">Xiuhtecuhtli</a> tletl (fire protector of the grass or fire protector of the year), being the oldest method to produce sparks(and fire) by colliding two flints. It also relates to <a href="/wiki/Ehecatl" title="Ehecatl">Ehecatl</a>, since in the codices it's represented by high winds, meaning that the air cuts like razor, so it represented xopantla ( spring ), the time of high winds. According to <a href="/wiki/Diego_Dur%C3%A1n" title="Diego Durán">Diego Durán</a>, the former <a href="/wiki/Anahuac_(Aztec)" title="Anahuac (Aztec)">Anahuac</a> considered the tecpatl as the worst sign of the zodiac, because the men and women born under this sign were happy but prone to infertility.<sup id="cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tlacatiliztonalli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_as_calendrical_symbol">Tecpatl as calendrical symbol</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Tecpatl as calendrical symbol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The image of the tecpatl was a <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">lunar</a> symbol and therefore ruled agricultural events. Their patron gods were: <a href="/wiki/Chalchiuhtotolin" title="Chalchiuhtotolin">Chalchiuhtotolin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tezcatlipoca" title="Tezcatlipoca">Tezcatlipoca</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Trecena" title="Trecena">trecena</a> of Ce Tecpatl(One Flint), the gods were <a href="/wiki/Tonatiuh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonatiuh">Tonatiuh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlantecuhtli">Mictlantecuhtli</a>. On day Ce Tecpatl(One Flint), there was a festival dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Huitzilopochtli" class="mw-redirect" title="Huitzilopochtli">Huitzilopochtli</a>, patron god of <a href="/wiki/Tenochtitlan" title="Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tenochtitlan_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tenochtitlan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tecpatl Year 1 (1168): the Aztec people left their place of origin, <a href="/wiki/Aztl%C3%A1n" title="Aztlán">Aztlán</a>, to undertake a long and difficult journey through the arid northern lands, part of what is now known as <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Germán_Fregolent_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Germán_Fregolent-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_as_a_tool_for_human_sacrifice">Tecpatl as a tool for human sacrifice</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tecpatl as a tool for human sacrifice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Codex_Magliabechiano_(141).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Codex_Magliabechiano_%28141%29.jpg/300px-Codex_Magliabechiano_%28141%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Codex_Magliabechiano_%28141%29.jpg/450px-Codex_Magliabechiano_%28141%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Codex_Magliabechiano_%28141%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="540" data-file-height="395" /></a><figcaption>Sacrifice of a war captive (Image based on the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Magliabechiano" title="Codex Magliabechiano">Codex Magliabechiano</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The tecpatl or sacrificial knife, was an important element in Aztec rituals. The tecpatl was used by Aztec priests to open the chest of the victims of <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifice</a> to extract the heart that would feed the gods, in the hope that the offerings would bring blessings to mankind.<sup id="cite_ref-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most widespread sacrificial procedure among Aztecs, was removal of the heart.<sup id="cite_ref-Germán_Fregolent_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Germán_Fregolent-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were different types of knives, some of them allude to human sacrifice, being carved as a skull silhouette, where the nose was used as the cutting edge of the weapon.<sup id="cite_ref-El_sacrificio_humano_en_los_Mexicas_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-El_sacrificio_humano_en_los_Mexicas-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the few técpame that have survived, there are some representations of deities in their handles. A famous pre-Columbian example is the carved image of a figure using circular plugs in its ears and a big bow ornament made out of feathers, which associates this figure with <a href="/wiki/Tonatiuh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonatiuh">Tonatiuh</a>, the sun god. Tonatiuh's arms appears to be holding the knife's blade. This particular knife, emphasizes the importance of human sacrifices to feed the gods, especially the sun god, who illuminates the earth and sustains life.<sup id="cite_ref-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_in_the_Sunstone">Tecpatl in the Sunstone</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Tecpatl in the Sunstone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flower,Wind,Flint,Earthquake.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flower%2CWind%2CFlint%2CEarthquake.jpg/300px-Flower%2CWind%2CFlint%2CEarthquake.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Flower%2CWind%2CFlint%2CEarthquake.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="416" data-file-height="338" /></a><figcaption>Representations of the tecpatl in the sun stone</figcaption></figure> <p>The flint knife, is also represented in the following sections of the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec calendar stone">Sun Stone</a>: </p> <ol><li>The tongue of the central face representing <a href="/wiki/Tonatiuh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonatiuh">Tonatiuh</a>.</li> <li>The date Ce Tecpatl (one flint), sculpted between the central solar ray and the image of Nahui Ocelotl(4 Jaguar). Here the flint carries a <a href="/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tezcatlipoca" title="Tezcatlipoca">Tezcatlipoca</a>.</li> <li>The glyph Tecpatl, carved within the circle of twenty days.</li> <li>The tongues sticking out of the anthropomorphic faces in profile emerging from the jaws of the two <a href="/wiki/Xiuhcoatl" title="Xiuhcoatl">xiuhcoatl</a> in the outer ring of the monument.</li> <li>On the outside edge of the stone, alternating with star glyphs. Each of the latter also uses the tecpatl to represent rays of light (or fire) emitted by the stars.</li> <li>On the Xihuitzolli (the royal <a href="/wiki/Diadem" title="Diadem">diadem</a>), sculpted between the central solar ray and the image of Nahui Ehecatl (4 Wind) quad. The center of the headband has a very similar shape to the knife that can be seen on other representations of the monument, and the tecpatl is commonly found in other representations of this device.<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nahui_Ollin_and_Tecpatl">Nahui Ollin and Tecpatl</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Nahui Ollin and Tecpatl"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the accounts written by Fray <a href="/wiki/Ger%C3%B3nimo_de_Mendieta" title="Gerónimo de Mendieta">Gerónimo de Mendieta</a> on the origin of Tecpatl: The <a href="/wiki/Centzonmimixcoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Centzonmimixcoa">Centzonmimixcoa</a> were the first man-gods, "they shall be as gods who created mankind and subsequently be slaughtered at <a href="/wiki/Teotihuacan" title="Teotihuacan">Teotihuacan</a>, some by jumping into fire, the others by opening their chest with a <a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">flint</a> knife, this in order that the new Sun has movement and life".<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This story is related to two main <a href="/wiki/Iconographic" class="mw-redirect" title="Iconographic">iconographic</a> elements from <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec calendar stone">Sunstone</a>: one is the Flint Knife (Tecpatl), and the other is the glyph: Four Movement (<a href="/wiki/Nahui_Ollin" title="Nahui Ollin">Nahui Ollin</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg/200px-Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="480" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg/300px-Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg/400px-Aztec_or_Mixtec_sacrificial_knife_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1122" data-file-height="2693" /></a><figcaption>Aztec or Mixtec sacrificial knife, probably for ceremonial use only, in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_and_Mixcoatl_–_Tezcatlipoca"><span id="Tecpatl_and_Mixcoatl_.E2.80.93_Tezcatlipoca"></span>Tecpatl and Mixcoatl – Tezcatlipoca</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tecpatl and Mixcoatl – Tezcatlipoca"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the version of the Legend of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Suns" title="Five Suns">Five Suns</a>, as well as the fourhundreth, five more <a href="/wiki/Centzonmimixcoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Centzonmimixcoa">Centzonmimixcoa</a> are born. The Sun god (<a href="/wiki/Tonatiuh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonatiuh">Tonatiuh</a>) sends these five Centzonmimixcoa to destroy their older siblings, but they do not offer any of their kill to the Sun god, or the Earth Lord(<a href="/wiki/Tlaltecuhtli" title="Tlaltecuhtli">Tlaltecuhtli</a>) . Among these five is <a href="/wiki/Mixcoatl" title="Mixcoatl">Mixcoatl</a>, who after destroying the fourhundreth Mimixcoa is given a white flint that came gushing out of <a href="/wiki/Itzpapalotl" class="mw-redirect" title="Itzpapalotl">Itzpapalotl</a>'s body. It was burned (dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Itzpapalotl" class="mw-redirect" title="Itzpapalotl">Itzpapalotl</a>) and broken several times. From there first came the azure flint; the second time flowed white flint. They took the white and wrapped it in a blanket. The third time sprouted yellow flint; neither took only saw. The fourth time flowed red flint; neither took . The fifth time sprang the black flint; neither took. Mixcoatl worshiped the gods by offering the white flint, which he wrapped in another blanket; and carried it on his back and went to fight in the place named Comallan, carrying it as an offering to his god, Itzpapalotl.<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Aztec_codices" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec codices">Aztec codices</a>, the myth goes that <a href="/wiki/Tezcatlipoca" title="Tezcatlipoca">Tezcatlipoca</a> changed his name to Mixcoatl in the second year after the flood and makes fire from two pieces of flint. Which would explain the reason why, in the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec calendar stone">Sun Stone</a>, the Tecpatl is carrying the glyph of <a href="/wiki/Tezcatlipoca" title="Tezcatlipoca">Tezcatlipoca</a>. The Tecpatl, linked to the origin of the fire, is also identified as a symbol of the Sun and stars.<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_associated_with_the_Moon">Tecpatl associated with the Moon</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tecpatl associated with the Moon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg/220px-Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg/330px-Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Tecpatl_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg 2x" data-file-width="381" data-file-height="309" /></a><figcaption>Técpatl represented on the Moon <a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a> page 18.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the codices, the Moon is usually shown on a framework of dark night, as a kind of vessel cross-cut and usually filled with a liquid form. The vessel appears to be formed by a crooked bone, and inside is almost always the figure of a rabbit, a tecpatl or sometimes a small snail. Sometimes the Moon is represented in the same way as the Sun, with rays, but with different colors and with a snail or tecpatl in the center.<sup id="cite_ref-Yólotl_González_Torres_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yólotl_González_Torres-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a>, the flint knife is imposed inside the lunar glyph replacing the rabbit. This substitution, undoubtedly refers to the relationship between the Moon and death. The Legend of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Suns" title="Five Suns">Five Suns</a>, the name of the moon god is Nahui be Tecpatl (Four-Flint knife). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anthropomorphizing_Tecpatl">Anthropomorphizing Tecpatl</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Anthropomorphizing Tecpatl"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_(tecpatl).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg/220px-Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg/330px-Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg/440px-Flint_Mexican_sacrificial_knife_%28tecpatl%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Aztec sacrificial knife made out of <a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">flint</a>, exhibit from Museo del <a href="/wiki/Templo_Mayor" title="Templo Mayor">Templo Mayor</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In other more elaborate representations in addition to the basic form, the tecpatl can appear <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphized" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropomorphized">anthropomorphized</a>, with two to seven teeth and an eye in the central region, which has a pupil center and an eyebrow on top; this eye is similar to that shown in the image of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mizquitli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mizquitli (page does not exist)">mizquitli</a> (death).<sup id="cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tlacatiliztonalli-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other times it was built into an elaborate handle made of wood or stone inlaid with turquoise and shell. </p><p>Other times, the flint was represented deified bristling with teeth or fangs and jaws with one eye.<sup id="cite_ref-Fernando_Díaz_Infante_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fernando_Díaz_Infante-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A knife found in the <a href="/wiki/Templo_Mayor" title="Templo Mayor">Templo Mayor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tenochtitlan" title="Tenochtitlan">Tenochtitlan</a>, shows a profile of a face that presumably represents the carrier of the tecpatl year(a minor deity). Its teeth and eyes were accented with inlaid white flint and obsidian, a volcanic rock. As it is a sacred sacrificial knife it is symbolically related to <a href="/wiki/Mictlan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlan">Mictlan</a>, the lower part of the universe where the emaciated beings live . Mictlan was associated with the color black and the tecpatl (sacrificial knife). This knife is associated with the black god <a href="/wiki/Tezcatlipoca" title="Tezcatlipoca">Tezcatlipoca</a>, who embodies an obsidian knife representing the black wind. As sacrificial knife, it is also associated with the North (the direction of death) and the <a href="/wiki/Flaying" title="Flaying">flayed</a> god <a href="/wiki/Xipe_Totec" title="Xipe Totec">Xipe Totec</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MANUEL_AGUILAR-MORENO-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_represented_as_tongue_or_nose">Tecpatl represented as tongue or nose</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Tecpatl represented as tongue or nose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mictlantecuhtli_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Mictlantecuhtli_Codex_Borgia_page_18.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="201" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="201" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlantecuhtli">Mictlantecuhtli</a> with tecpame representing his nose and tongue (<a href="/wiki/Codex_Borgia" title="Codex Borgia">Codex Borgia</a>, page 18).</figcaption></figure> <p>The knife inserted into the nasal cavity symbolizes "cut the air", which is a vital element in symbolizing death.<sup id="cite_ref-mexico-tenoch_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mexico-tenoch-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tongue in the form of an obsidian knife (tecpatl) exposed to outside, indicates the need to be fed with the magical substance that was human blood flowing from the heart.<sup id="cite_ref-Los_Aztecas_2_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Aztecas_2-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In excavations of the <a href="/wiki/Templo_Mayor" title="Templo Mayor">Templo Mayor</a>, 33 skull-masks representing <a href="/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlantecuhtli">Mictlantecuhtli</a> (god of death) were found; made out of the <a href="/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location" title="Anatomical terms of location">rostral</a> portion of human skulls, adorned with shell and pyrite to represent the eyes, and sacrificial knives to simulate nose and tongue.<sup id="cite_ref-Alfredo_lópez_Austin,_leonardo_lópez_luján_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alfredo_lópez_Austin,_leonardo_lópez_luján-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Codex_Borbonicus" title="Codex Borbonicus">Codex Borbonicus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Xolotl" title="Xolotl">Xolotl</a>'s tongue is made out of <a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">flint</a> and he is carrying another knife with his right hand. <a href="/wiki/Tlaltecuhtli" title="Tlaltecuhtli">Tlaltecuhtli</a> (Lord of the Earth), is found in various sculptures and manuscripts, with tecpatl representing the tongue of the deity. In the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec calendar stone">Sun Stone</a>, the tongue of the central face of <a href="/wiki/Tonatiuh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tonatiuh">Tonatiuh</a> is a tecpatl. In the Codex Borgia, <a href="/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mictlantecuhtli">Mictlantecuhtli</a> (lord of the underworld) appears as an active sacrificer armed with an ax or a técpal, ready to draw the hearts of his victims, his nose and tongue accuse the form of sharp knives.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tecpatl_in_Mexica_worldview">Tecpatl in Mexica worldview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tecpatl in Mexica worldview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Tecpatl was in the middle of <a href="/wiki/Aztec_mythology" title="Aztec mythology">Aztec mythology</a>, it is in the center of the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_calendar_stone" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec calendar stone">Sun Stone</a>, and it was instrumental in the ritual to bring out the heart of the sacrificial victim, which allowed light to reach the heart of the victim and therefore, was a mediator between life and death, between the divine realm and the human, between heaven, earth and the underworld. Since flint had the potential to make fire, it was considered an expression of celestial starlight on earth.<sup id="cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tecpatl&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://historicos1.blogspot.mx/2013/06/los-mexicasy-el-sacrificio-humano-antes.html"><i>El sacrificio humano en los Mexicas.</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Piedradelsol-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Piedradelsol_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://piedradelsol.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/capitulo-4-tecpatl_-origen-y-sacrificio.pdf"><i>TECPATL: ORIGEN Y SACRIFICIO.</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Instituto_Cultural_Quetzalcoatl-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Instituto_Cultural_Quetzalcoatl_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.samaelgnosis.net/calendario_azteca/18_tecpatl_cuchillo.html"><i>Día 18. Tecpatl(Cuchillo).</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tlacatiliztonalli-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tlacatiliztonalli_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.omeacatl.org/tlamatiliztli/?p=976"><i>Tlacatiliztonalli ‘Energía de nacimiento’ .</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-tenochtitlan-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-tenochtitlan_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tenochtitlan.8k.com/pagina/tonalli/tecpatl.htm"><i>Tenochtitlan.</i></a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Germán_Fregolent-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Germán_Fregolent_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a 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