ID: 901002419 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002419	Record Type: Character/Person

	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity)

Note: ENGLISH: Nahua deity associated with fire and its manifestations, and scorpions. The "old teotl," depicted with a wrinkled face and hunched back with a large round headdress, particularly in sculpture, that can be used as a brazier. Often translated as "Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of the Year" (from the multivalent Nahuatl term "xihuitl"), he is also known as Ixcozauhqui, “Yellow Face,” or Huehuehteotl, the "old teotl" and described as a progenitor, "the mother of the deities, the father of the deities." SPANISH: Deidad nahua asociada al fuego y sus manifestaciones, y a los alacranes. El "viejo teotl", representado con el rostro arrugado y la espalda encorvada con un gran tocado redondo. Sus figuraciones escultóricas se utilizaban como brasero. A menudo traducido como "Señor de la Turquesa" o "Señor del Año" (del término náhuatl multivalente "xihuitl"), también se le conoce como Ixcozauhqui, "Cara Amarilla", o Huehuehteotl, el "viejo teotl" y se le describe como un progenitor, "la madre de las deidades, el padre de las deidades". HUASTECAN: Ce teotl nahua tlen ica monechicohtoc tlitl huan quen neci, huan colomeh. Neci iixxayac cuihcuilichtic huan panhuicoltic quihuica ce huei cuaxochitl yahualtic, maz quence nezcayotl huan hueliz motequihuia quence ce tlixictli. Ahachica motlahtolcuaptoc quence "Señor de la Turquesa" o "Señor del Año", nouhquiya quiixmatih quence Ixcozauhqui o Huehuehteotl huan moihtoa quence tetatah, "tenanan tlen toteotzin, huan tetatah tlen toteotzin".

Names:

	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity) (preferred,Classical Nahuatl-P,D,N)
	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity) (English-P,D,N)
	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity) (Spanish-P,D,N)
	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity) (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl-P,D,N)
	Xiuhtecutli (Nahua deity) (Classical Nahuatl)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
		........<Nahua iconography> (P)
		............<Nahua characters> (P)
		................Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Nahua (style or culture)
	.....(Native Central Mexican styles, Native Middle American, Native American, The Americas, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Xiuhteuctli (teotl, Nahua deity)
	................Bierhorst 1992 23
	................Lockhart 1993 52
	................Wimmer 2020
	Xiuhtecutli (Nahua deity)
	................Lockhart 1993 52
	................Sahagún 2012 (I) 29

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-) FCIA003