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<blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1122431" data-attributes="member: 4144"><p>Ahuizotl was also the name of an Aztec king who preceded Montezuma. Not surprisingly, his totem animal or nahua was an ahuizotl. It was actually thought of as a real animal, since an Aztec natural history book, preserved and translated as the Florentine Codex, lists the ahuizotl among the denizens of Mexico. It supposedly cries like a baby to get people to come close to its lake. But to get back to Demiurge's post, I've never seen it with a fish's body; every Aztec depiction of it I've found looks for all the world like a big-eyed, bucktoothed squirrel. </p><p></p><p>I think it may be based on the demigod Xolotl, the dog of heaven, who was supposedly Venus. At one point, I think he leaped or was thrown out of heaven and landed in a lake. He was actually depicted as a dog, with a hand nearby. Although the story of the Morningstar's expulsion from Heaven sounds a bit like something the Spanish introduced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew D. Gable, post: 1122431, member: 4144"] Ahuizotl was also the name of an Aztec king who preceded Montezuma. Not surprisingly, his totem animal or nahua was an ahuizotl. It was actually thought of as a real animal, since an Aztec natural history book, preserved and translated as the Florentine Codex, lists the ahuizotl among the denizens of Mexico. It supposedly cries like a baby to get people to come close to its lake. But to get back to Demiurge's post, I've never seen it with a fish's body; every Aztec depiction of it I've found looks for all the world like a big-eyed, bucktoothed squirrel. I think it may be based on the demigod Xolotl, the dog of heaven, who was supposedly Venus. At one point, I think he leaped or was thrown out of heaven and landed in a lake. He was actually depicted as a dog, with a hand nearby. Although the story of the Morningstar's expulsion from Heaven sounds a bit like something the Spanish introduced. [/QUOTE]
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