Ilhuícatl-Teteocán


Main article: Thirteen Skies The four cardinal points or kingdoms of the horizontal universe described in the Codex Borgia according to the Cosmogonia mexica.

Ilhuícatl-Teteocán (in Nahuatl: ilhuicatl-teteocan, 'the sky where the gods''ilhuicatl, sky, teteo, gods, can, place') in Mexica mythology is the twelfth celestial stratum of the universe vertical according to the Cosmogonia Mexica, is the place considered as the abode of the Tezcatlipocas or creator gods, an eminently divine place where the deities remain and are projected to be in other places, where the gods take faces, and where they are masked to be others being themselves, place where they are born, they are reborn and they feed in their quality of eternal and mutant beings. Bibliography

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