Tepeyollotl
Tepeyollotl, Heart of the Mountain, is the jaguar of the cave and the earthquake, one of the aspects of Tezcatlipoca, shown in the Florentine Codex and the Codex Borgia with jaguar features and the smoking mirror.
The jaguar and cave iconography and his place among the aspects of Tezcatlipoca are attested; the echo and the earthquake are the traditional reading of the figure and the entry keeps them as images rather than as stated doctrine. The planetary value Pluto, the zodiac values Capricorn and Scorpio, the tarot cards and the sabbats Samhain and Yule are modern Western overlays, and the Earth and Saturn values are overlays too; the Nahua tradition assigns him no planet, and his own place is the cave and the hill, not the sky. Because he is an aspect of Tezcatlipoca, work with him should be done as work with Tezcatlipoca.
Correspondences
Offerings
- Offerings
- Copal incenseObsidianWaterMaizeTobacco
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Heart of the MountainThe Jaguar of the CaveThe Echo
- Gender Expression
- Masculine
- Titles
- Heart of the MountainThe Jaguar of the CaveThe Night Sun
- Symbols
- JaguarCave mouthEchoEarthquakeNight sun
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneThe heart beating inside the rockAddressTepeyollotlHeart of the MountainRelationshipThe jaguar that is the inside of the hillWarningAn aspect of tezcatlipoca and so not a separate powerResonanceCave work those who live beside a mountain
- Modern Practice
Tepeyollotl is worked in caves and at mountains, in the underground of a place or a life, and in any work that requires listening to what answers back. As an aspect of Tezcatlipoca he is called within that relationship rather than as an independent patron.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- The mountainThe caveThe jaguarEarthquakesThe echoThe night sunThe underworld
- Mythology Summary
Tepeyollotl, Heart of the Mountain, is the jaguar of the cave and the earthquake, one of the aspects of Tezcatlipoca, shown in the Florentine Codex and the Codex Borgia with jaguar features and the smoking mirror. He is the darkness inside the hill, the roar that comes back off the rock, and the sun in its night journey under the earth. He is an aspect rather than a separate god, and the sources present him as a face of Tezcatlipoca turned toward the ground.
- Related Deities
- TezcatlipocaTlalocMictlantecuhtliTonatiuhHuitzilopochtli
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