Examples of Huitzilopochtli in the following topics:
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- Huitzilopochtli – The “left-handed
hummingbird” god was the god of war and the sun and also the
founder of Tenochtitlan.
- Veneration of Huitzilopochtli, the
personification of the sun and of war, was central to the religious,
social, and political practices of the Mexica people.
- Huitzilopochtli
attained this central position after the founding of Tenochtitlan and
the formation of the Mexica city-state society in the 14th century.
- (It was said that
Huitzilopochtli killed his nephew, Cópil, and threw his heart on the
lake.
- Huitzilopochtli honoured Cópil by causing a cactus to grow
over Cópil's heart.)