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the name of a divine force or deity; curved obsidian blade
See an image that represents Itztlacoliuhqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Also part of the compound name of a deity, Ixquimilli-Itztlacoliuhqui ("Eye Bundle-Curved Obsidian Blade), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry
Ce Cuetzpalin, or One Lizard, a calendrical name and once another name for Itztlacoliuhqui; in the Treatise, it is an example of a tonalli that can be summoned (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Also the name of the divine force relating to frost: "Cetl, mitoa: itztlacoliuhqui, cexiuhtica in oallatiuh, in ceuetzi: ipan ochpaniztli, in peoa ceuetzi. Auh chicoacempoalilhuitl, "[Frost]. The frost [god] was called Itztlacoliuhqui. Once yearly the cold came. During the feast of Ochpaniztli the cold began. And for one hundred and twenty days -- one hundred and twenty suns -- this persisted and there was cold. And it ended and disappeared [during the feast] called Tititl." (central Mexico, sixteenth century)