Wikipedia's article on Xochipilli, the Aztec deity of beauty, youth, love, art, music and flowers, published by the Wikimedia Foundation and maintained by its community of editors. It is used here only to corroborate the close association between Xochipilli and Macuilxochitl, described more fully in this atlas's academic sources on Aztec religion, not as the primary source for any claim about the deity. As a collaboratively edited, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, it is reliable for that kind of narrow corroboration and less reliable as a standalone authority; a claim needing deeper interpretation should rest on the atlas's dedicated academic sources instead.
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A collaboratively edited encyclopedia entry, used here only to corroborate the close association between Xochipilli and Macuilxochitl already described generally in the atlas's academic sources on Aztec religion, not as the primary source for any claim. NotesStates Xochipilli, Flower Prince, is the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance, flowers, maize and song, patron of the ballgame and of the board game patolli, and that he is closely associated with, and in some accounts treated as another name or aspect of, Macuilxochitl, Five Flower, foremost of the Ahuiateteo, the two sharing patronage of games, gambling, music and the pleasures of life.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C5%8Dchipilli
Source Typereference
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This source names Macuilxochitl directly: "association between Xochipilli and Macuilxochitl, described more fully in this atlas's academic sources on Aztec religion, not as the primary source for any claim about the deity."
This source names Xochipilli directly: "Wikipedia's article on Xochipilli, the Aztec deity of beauty, youth, love, art, music and flowers, published by the Wikimedia Foundation and maintained by its community of editors."
Claims Backed By This Source (50 claims)
This source backs 50 claims across the atlas. As facts: 45 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Deities, 39 claims: 37 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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