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Tezcatlipoca

[tes-kaht-li-poh-kah]

noun

  1. an Aztec god.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tezcatlipoca1

< Nahuatl Tēzcatlepōca, perhaps equivalent to tēzca ( tl ) mirror + tle ( tl ) fire + ( po ) pōca smokes (3rd-person singular present verb)
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Example Sentences

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“It was called Tezcatlipoca — the Jaguar Knight, the Jaguar’s Son Who Rules at Night. And so the Pachuco was a creature of night, so to speak. That suit was not for broad daylight or early in the morning. It’s really for night — the urban night, on top of that, under streetlamps. Eddie encapsulates it. He is the jaguar. That’s his power.”

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The name of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca was Lord of the Smoking Mirror, a reference to obsidian.

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“I’m not superstitious, but blessed be Tezcatlipoca!” he quipped, referring to a major Aztec deity associated with providence and sorcery.

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The figure is that of Tezcatlipoca, an Aztec god whose name was sometimes translated as "smoking mirror".

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“Tezcatlipoca was the god of all those things, and more,” my grandfather once told me, when I was a girl in Puebla.

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