ID: 901001981 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001981	Record Type: Character/Person

	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity)

Note: ENGLISH: Nahua deity of the dead, usually portrayed with a skull face. With his wife, Mictecacíhuatl, he ruled Mictlan, the land of the dead. The souls of those whose manner of death failed to call them to various paradises (i.e., for those dead by war, sacrifice, childbirth, drowning, lightning, and certain diseases) made a four-year journey, fraught with trials, through the nine hells of Mictlan. In the last, where Mictlantecuhtli lived, they disappeared or found rest. SPANISH: La deidad nahua de los muertos, normalmente representada con una cara de cráneo. Con su esposa, Mictecacíhuatl, gobernó Mictlan, la tierra de los muertos. Las almas de aquellos cuya forma de morir no les llamaba a varios paraísos (es decir, para aquellos muertos por guerra, sacrificio, parto, ahogamiento, rayos y ciertas enfermedades) hacían un viaje de cuatro años, lleno de pruebas, a través de los nueve infiernos del Mictlan. En el último, donde vivió Mictlantecuhtli, desaparecieron o encontraron descanso. HUASTECAN: Totiotzin nahuatl tlen miquiztli, nochipa mopannextihtoc ica ce iixco tlen tzontecomitl. Huanya icihuauh, Mictecacihuatl, tlanahuatih ipan mictlan, tlalli tlen mictoqueh. Inintonal tlen cequi quen miquiyayah ica ce tlamantli amo yohuiyayah cequi nepa elhuicatl campa titiotzin (tiquihtozceh, cequi tlen miquiyayah pan tlahuilantli, pan ce zacrifio, quemman ehua ce conetzin, quemman ce meltzimia zo atocoa, pan ce tlahuitectli huan ica cequi cocoliztli) yohuiyayah pan ce ohtli tlen campa quichihuayayah nahui xihuitl, huan panoyaya pan miac tlamantli, ipan chiucnahui infierno tlen Mictlan. Ipan itlamiyan nopayoh itztoya Mictlantecohtli, poliuhqueh zon tlanqueh.

Names:

	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity) (Classical Nahuatl-P,D,N)
	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity) (Spanish-P,D)
	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity) (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl-P,D)
	Mictlan teuctli (Nahua deity) (Classical Nahuatl,U)
	Mictlantecuhtli (Nahua deity) (English,U,N)
	Mictlantecuhtli (Nahua deity) (Classical Nahuatl,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
		........<Nahua iconography> (P)
		............Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity) (I)

Related Iconography:

	consort/spouse of .... Mictecacihuatl
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, Nahua iconography, Nahua characters, Mictecacihuatl (Nahua deity)) [901001982]

	has as ruler .... Mictlan
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, Nahua iconography, Nahua legendary places, Mictlan (Nahua legendary place)) [901001983]

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 .... Aztec (culture or style)
	.....(Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles, Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles and periods, Mesoamerican regional styles and periods, Mesoamerican, Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods, Pre-Columbian (American), Americas, The, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	deity of .... dead (people)
	.....(people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Mictlanteuctli (Nahua deity)
	................Pillsbury et al, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts (2017) 307
	................Olko 2014
	Mictlan teuctli (Nahua deity)
	................Wimmer 2020
	Mictlantecuhtli (Nahua deity)
	................Nicholson, Mexican and Central American Mythology (1967)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Maya, Inca, Aztec online (2000-)
	................Sahagún 1989 327

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli#/media/File:MictlantecuhtliByPhilKonstantin.jpg
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Mictlantecuhtli," accessed 21 July 2017
	................ Olko 2014
	................ GRI, FloCo terminology (2019-) FCIA007