Deities
Centzon Totochtin
Aztec Deities
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The Centzon Totochtin, the Four Hundred Rabbits, are a multitude of Aztec deities personifying the many different effects and personalities of intoxication brought on by pulque, the fermented drink of the maguey plant. They are named as the children of the maguey goddess Mayahuel and the pulque god Patecatl. Four hundred (centzontli in Nahuatl) is a conventional figure of speech for an innumerable multitude in Nahuatl idiom, not a literal count of individual gods.
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Veneration TodayHistorically attested; no continuous cult 1 HistoricityNot a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1 Function
Domain / Function Belief
TheologyPolytheistic: many gods 1 Identity
GenderCollective / plural, not a single figure 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Centzon Totochtin directly: "maguey plant; also describing the Centzon Totochtin as her and Patecatl's children."
This source names Centzon Totochtin directly: "genealogy (Patecatl as consort, the Centzon Totochtin as children)."
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