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Epcoatl.
Headword:
Epcoatl.
Principal English Translation:
a divine force of rain, another name for Tlaloc; also, a personal name (attested as male) taken by a range of people
Orthographic Variants:
Epcuvatl
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents Epcoatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Epcoatl was also another name for the rain deity, Tlaloc. ("nom divin, autre nom ou titre de Tlaloc")
A famous Epcoatl was a boy who died at Pantitlan, a special place in the lake where child sacrifices were made to the rain deities; his special ritual clothing was decorated with mussel shells. Sahagún 2,43 = Sahagún 1927, 57.
ytoca epcuvatl = named Epcoatl (male, husband of Centehua) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
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