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Vol. II · Polytheism
Xiuhtecuhtli
Aztec fire deity
the turquoise lord presiding over the New Fire ceremony at the mountaintop, the world's continued existence depending on the spark he gives
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.
