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Visual depiction of Huitzilopochtli

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. II · Polytheism

Huitzilopochtli

Aztec war and sun god


the blue hummingbird warrior born fully armed from his mother's womb atop the serpent mountain, driving back the stars at every dawn

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.