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Vol. II · Polytheism · death

Mictlantecuhtli

Aztec lord of the dead

a skeletal deity adorned with eyeballs and paper decorations presiding over Mictlan, the lowest level of the Aztec underworld

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

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.