Ehecatl

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Depiction of Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl (Quetzalcoatl combined with the attributes of Ehecatl), from the Codex Borgia

This article is about the Mesoamerican deity figure. For the Mexican unmanned aircraft, see Ehécatl (airplane). For other uses, see Ehecatl (disambiguation).

Ehecatl (Spanish: Ehécatl, Nahuatl: ehēcatl) is a pre-Columbian deity associated with the wind, who features in Aztec mythology and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of Mesoamerica. He is most usually interpreted as the aspect of the Feathered Serpent deity (Quetzalcoatl in Aztec and other Nahua cultures) as a god of wind, and is therefore also known as Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl.^[1] Ehecatl also figures prominently as one of the creator gods and culture heroes in the mythical creation accounts documented for pre-Columbian central Mexican cultures.^[2]

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^ Miller and Taube (1993, p.84)
^ Miller and Taube (1993, pp.70,84)

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