Lords of the Day

In Aztec mythology the Lords of the Day (Classical Nahuatl: Tonalteuctin) are a set of thirteen gods who ruled over a particular day corresponding to one of the thirteen heavens. They were cyclical, so that the same god ruled every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are:

• Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire and time.
• Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the earth.
• Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism.
• Tonatiuh, god of the sun.
• Tlazolteotl, goddess of lust, carnality, sexual misdeeds.
• Mictlantecuhtli, god of the underworld.
• Centeotl, god of maize. Also recognized as Chicomecoatl, goddess of agriculture.
• Tlaloc, god of the thunder, rain and earthquakes.
• Ehecatl, Lord of wind, life giver, who breaths life into being and moves the sun, the god created love for his lover Mayahuel, an important aspect of Quetzalcoatl, the lord of the West.
• Tezcatlipoca, god of providence, matter and the invisible, ruler of the night, Great Bear, impalpable, ubiquity and the twilight, the lord of the North.
• Mictecacihuatl, goddess of the underworld.
• Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Lord of the House of Dawn, the morning star, Venus, an important aspect of Quetzalcoatl.
• Citlalicue, goddess of the female stars (Milky Way).