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Tezcatlipoca (Nahuatl "Smoking Mirror") is the most feared god in the Aztec mythology. His animal is the jaguar. One of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, collectively referred to as the four Tezcatlipoca's. he is associated with a wide range of concepts, including the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war, and strife.

In the creation myth of this pantheon, Tezcatlipoca and his siblings (Xipe Topec, Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli) attempted to create things but whatever they created fell into the ocean, swallowed by Cipactli, a giant serpent who lives in the ocean (similar to Jǫrmungandr). eventually Tezcatlipoca volunteers to bait Cipactli to the surface so the other gods could trap him, he does this by dipping his leg in the ocean. eventually Cipactli saw the leg and tried and succeeded to eat it. of course when he broke the surface the other gods subdued him and reformed his skin into the land, unfortunately Cipactli wasn't fully killed and required blood sacrifices in order to not attempt to kill everyone. This can be compared to the norse myth were Tyr courageously volunteered to sacrifice his arm in order to secure Fenrir.

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