"Mirror's Smoke," a deity with an omnipotence, often malevolent, associated with feasting and revelry; also, a person's name (attested male)
Auh in titlacaoan, no qujtocaiotiaia tezcatlipuca, moiocoiatzi, iaotzi, necoc iautl, neҫaoalpilli = And Titlacauan they also named Tezcatlipoca, and Moiocoiatzin, Yaotzin, Necoc iaotl, and Neҫaualpilli (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Injc vme capitulo, itechpa tlatoa in quenjn Dios vel ipã qujmatia in iehoatl in mjtoa Titlacaoan, anoҫo Tezcatlipuca in juhqujma ipan qujmatia ce dios = Second Chapter, which telleth how they considered a god one named Titlacauan or Tezcatlipoca; even as an only god they believed in him (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Tezcatlipoca = from tezcatl (mirror) and pocatl (smoke).
This deity was the omnipotent, omipresent, protean "supreme god" of the late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican pantheon.
tezcatlipuca: in qujtocaiotiaia iooalli, ehecatl = Tezcatlipoca, whom they named the night, the wind (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
In youalli, in ehecatl in naoalli in totecuyo. Inin tlatolli, itechpa mitoaya: in tlacateculotl Tezcatlipoca. = Our Lord, the Night, the Wind, the Conjuror. These words were said of the idol, Tezcatlipoca.
qujtlatlauhtiaia tezcatlipuca: in qujtocaiotiaia iaotl necoc iaotl, monenequj: injc qujtlanjliaia in tepaleujliztli, in jquac iaoiutl muchioaia = they prayed to Tezcatlipoca, whom they named Yaotl, Necoc yaotl, Monenequi, to request aid when war was waged (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Auh cujx tictlacaitta in tloque naoaque: in telpuchtli, in moiocoia, in titlacava in tezcatlipuca: ca iooalli, ca ehecatl = behold the lord of the near, of the nigh, the youth, Moyocoya, Titlacauan, Tezcatlipoca? For he is the night; he is the wind (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
When a tlatoani was invested in office, he was dressed in a green cape that had the same design of bones as that of the figure of Huitzilopochtli in the festival of Toxcatl. This was a festival in honor of Tezcatlipoca. Huitzilopochtli was identified with Tezcatlipoca. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
lucas tezcapoc (a person's name) (the glyph next to the gloss for the name includes a mirror and three plumes of smoke) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Tezcatlipoca: ynin vel teutl ipan machoia, noujian ynemjian: mictla, tlalticpac, ylhujcac. Jn jquac nemja tlalticpac, iehoatl qujiolitiaja, in teuhtli tlaçolli: cococ teupouhquj, qujteittitiaia = Tezcatlipoca: He was considered a true god, whose abode was everywhere—in the land of the dead, on earth, and in heaven. When he walked on earth, he brought vice and sin. He introduced anguish and affliction. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
…yzcatpui ynic peuaz yn yaoyotl ynic poliuizque tiquincuicatizque timaceuazque yn tiqueuazque pancuicatl niman ya cuica yn tezcatlepoca = He aquí con lo que empezará la guerra para destruirlos, les compondremos un canto, bailaremos, entonaremos el pancuicatl. Luego ya canta Tezcatlipoca…. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)