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Visual depiction of Tezcatlipoca

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sky

Tezcatlipoca

Aztec lord of night and sorcery


the smoking mirror god with a black obsidian foot, his mirror showing the hidden sins and fates of all who dare to look into it

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

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.