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Ometecuhtli

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Ometecuhtli

Aztec deity, the Lord of Duality or Lord of Life. With his female counterpart, Omecíhuatl (Lady of Duality), he lived in Omeyocan, the 13th and highest Aztec heaven. He was represented by symbols of fertility, and his image was adorned with ears of corn. He was the only Aztec god to have neither a temple nor a formal cult. Seeing him as remote in the heavens, the Aztecs assumed he would never interact with them directly, but they felt his presence in rituals and in the rhythms of nature.



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The couple is equivalent to the Aztec ancestral couple, the gods of creation and procreation Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.
 
 
 
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