Ixtlilton

Ixtlilton described in the Borgia Codex.

Ixtlilton (from Nahuatl: ixtlilton 'black face''ixtli, face; tliltic, black; tontli, diminutive.') in mythology Mexica is the god of medicine, dance, festivals, and games, and is closely associated with the Centzontotochtin. Tlaltetecuin or Ixtlilton, is the lord of the tlílatl black water, which had healing properties and served as ink in the making of the codices. His temple was known as the Tlacuilocan, & # 34; place of the notary public & # 34;. Sahagún tells that this Negrito was the patron of professional musicians and dancers. When someone wanted to throw a party, he would go to the priests of Ixtlilton, he would take them to his house. The musicians and dancers were headed by one who dressed in the god's attire.

When they arrived at the house of the party, the first thing they did was eat and drink; "after which they would begin dancing and singing" in honor of whom they celebrated. The musicians played the drum and the teponaztli. The priest who impersonated Ixtlilton led the dance. People followed him. They gathered "two by two, or three by three, in a great circle, depending on the number of them, carrying flowers in their hands and dressed in plumage." After dancing "great time", they would bring one or two "jars" of pulque. They drank. Then the master of the house made a kind of payment; he offered four jars of black water to the priest god Ixtlilton. But if when opening them some dirt was discovered, such as a straw, a piece of hair or a piece of coal, "they said that the person who was throwing the party was a man of bad life, an adulterer or a thief, or given to carnal vice"; a "sower of discord". This sensitivity undoubtedly linked Ixtlilton with the gods of the sexual.

One Chronic He says that... they made him an oratory of painted boards, like tabernacle, where his image was. In this oratory or temple there were many lebrillos and tubs of water, and they were all covered with boards or comals; they called this water tlylatl, or which means black water. When a child was sick, they brought him to the temple or tabernacle of this god Ixtlilton, and opened one of those jars and gave the child drink of that water and with it healed; and when any man wanted to make the feast of this god, by his devotion he brought his image home. His image was not a painting but one of the satraps that wore ornament this god...