Comparison of Aztec deities with ancient Thamizh deities of Aaseevagam Pantheon:
Aztec deity
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Characteristics or Epithets
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Symbols and
Root words
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Matching Traits, Symbols in Thamizh Culture or other
Cultures
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Aaseevagam deity equivalent
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Chalchiuhtlicue
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water, rivers, of seas, streams, storms, oceans, rains, fertility goddess, harvests, marriage, infants, children
upset canoes and drown men,
helped Tlaloc rule, paradise kingdom of Tlalocan.
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carved from green stone, depiction with jade green skirt, serpents, maize and
shells, carries cross as a fertility
symbol
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Cross = sprouting foliage of a seed
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Meenatchi, goddess of seas and oceans or Pachaiamma the
fertility deity.
Rule of Pandiya Ravanan and Indran in Ancient Lanka or
“Garden of Eden"
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Chicomecōātl
As also Xilonen
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goddess of agriculture,
goddess of nourishment,
goddess of plenty and the female aspect of corn,
seven snakes,
Counterpart of maize god Centeōtl,
Wife of Tezcatlipoca
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doll made of corn
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Valli or Pachaiamma Saptha
Kannis with snake hoods
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Cihuacoatl
Also as Quilaztli
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fertility goddess, childbirth, mothers, fallen warriors, snake woman
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Pachaiamma + Kaali aspects
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Coatlicue
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earth/Mother goddess,
mother of the gods especially, Huitzilopochtli, the god
of the sun and war.
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moon, stars
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Kaali (as Mother of Murugan ) + Neelambigai
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Five Suns Myth
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First sun - eaten by jaguars,
Second Sun - made into monkeys, hurricanes
Third sun - turned into birds, destroyed by fire,
Fourth Sun - by flood and people became fish,
Fifth sun - earthquakes
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Yugam or Eras of Thamizh Thinai - Landscape conquests of mankind
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1. Kreta -Mountain Era of Sivan destroyed by the Great Deluge
2. Treta - Forest and Farming Era of Murugan and also Ramayana war
3. Dwapara - Farming and Fishing Era and of Mahabharatha War
4. Kali Yuga - Gambling and War Era of Jews
5. Satya - Truth and Harmony Era
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Huehueteotl
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old god, fire deity,
also as serpent Xiuhcoatl
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Sivan, Fire god as Nataraja or
Uruthiran - the melter, with
Kundalini Serpent
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Huitzilopochtli
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primary god of war and sun,
national god of the Mexicas or Aztecs
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victories and defeats of the Mexican people
on the
battlefield
weapon as Xiuhcoatl or Kundalini Snake
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Murugan
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Itzpapalotl
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fearsome skeletal warrior goddess, ruled paradise world
of Tamoanchan, place where humans were created
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obsidian butterfly
obsidian - a black color stone
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Kaali the black deity, of Kumari Kandam or Lemuria, the
Lost Continent
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Itzamna
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Creator God,
Maya maize god, farming, hunting, god of medicine, King/priest, rain deity, calender
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tonsured
head, loincloth, depicted as a transformative shape/bird
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Dragon
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Murugan as Palani Andavar with tonsured head
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Mixcoatl
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Camaztle/Camaxtli,
Father of another important deity, Quetzalcoatl
worshipped as the Red aspect of the god Tezcatlipoca
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Hunting, Milky Way, stars, sky invented the fire drill by
revolving the heavens around their axes, bringing fire to humanity, first to
strike fire with flint.
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Sivan as Fire god Nataraja
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Ōmecihuātl
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Same as Tonacacihuatl
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Valli
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Ometeotl
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lord of Ying-Yang/duality
Dual God or Lord of the Duality
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both male and female, good and evil, light and darkness,
fire and water, judgment and forgiveness, the god of duality
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Sivan or Shiva
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Ōmetēuctli
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Same as Tonacatecutli
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Murugan
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Quetzalcoatl
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Creator deity, Feathered Serpent, arts, crafts, knowledge,
merchants
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Caduceus staff, wind, Venus as morning star, rattlesnakes,
crows,
Quetzals - birds like parrots
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Dragon
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Murugan
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Tamoanchan
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mythical location
paradise where the gods created the first of the present
human race
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Kumari Kandam or Lemuria, the Lost Continent
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Tezcatlipoca
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lord of beauty, war, spear, loincloth, god of sorcerers,
rulers, and warriors
Son of Ometeotl,
rival of Quetzalcoatl,
creator and destroyer of the world
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night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the
earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership,
divination, temptation, sorcery, beauty, war and strife,
Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May |
Tezcatlipoca Vs Quetzalcoatl
Same as
St.George Vs Dragon,
Marduk Vs Tiamat,
Murugan Vs Tharakasuran
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Murugan as son of Sivan
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Tlaloc
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God of rain, fertility, water, giver of life and
sustenance, Lord of the third Sun, destroyed by fire,
Green One |
hail, thunder, lightning, floods,
droughts, crop supply, caves, springs, and mountains |
Indran, with aspects of Murugan added. (Murugan and Indran have some similar aspects like rains, floods, farming, fertility, weapons, war) |
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Tlalocan
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Place ruled by of
Tlaloc, place of the rain deity
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Water, floods, Paradise, underworld | Lanka, the remaining part of Kumari Kandam | |
Tonacacihuatl
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creatress and fertility deity,
wife of Tonacatecutli
worshiped for peopling the earth and making it fruitful. Lady of Our Sustenance,
Lady of Our Food,
Lady of Our Flesh,
Lady of Abundance
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Pachaiamma/Valli
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Tonacatecutli
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aged creator god, fertility deity
Lord of Sustenance,
Lord of Our Food, Lord of Our Flesh,
Lord of Abundance
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worshipped for peopling the earth and making it fruitful
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Murugan
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Tzitzimitl
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protectresses of the feminine and progenitresses of
mankind
Leaderene-
Itzpapalotl
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Saptha Maatha, Also in myths as Karthigai pengal/Seven Sisters of Pleiades,
Itzpapalotl = Kaali |
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Xipe Totec/
Xipetotec
also Tlatlauhca,
Tlatlauhqui-Tezcatlipoca, &
Youalahuan
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god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, liberation,
spring, disease, goldsmiths,
silversmiths, seasons
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life - death -rebirth
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Thamizh
New Year/Chithirai Festival
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Murugan
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Xiuhcoatl
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mythological serpent, Fire, Weapon of
Huitzilopochtli, the war god,
turquoise serpent, fire serpent,
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Dragon
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Kundalini snake,
Related to Murugan
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Xiuhtecuhtli
Also,
Cuezaltzin/
Ixcozauhqui/
Huehueteotl ("Old God")
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Father of the Gods, oldest and most revered deity,
god of the year and of time.
Lord of fire, day, heat, volcanoes, afterlife,
Ometecuhtli, the Lord of Duality
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sacred fire was always kept burning in the temples, Taurus
passing as
calendar new year ceremony for the deity
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xihuitl means "year" as well as
"turquoise" and "fire"
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Sivan, Lunar year, Uruthiran - the melter of metals
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Xochipilli
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fertility, agricultural produce, flower prince,
Chicomexochitl the Seven-flower,
Macuilxochitl Five-flower
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art, dance, flowers, writing, painting,
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Tonsured Maize God among the Classic Mayas,
Related to Tlaloc (god of rain), and Cinteotl (god of maize)
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Murugan as “Puvi Arasan” or “Flower King” , Creator of
Saptha Kanni,
Venus - Five pointed star
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Xochiquetzal
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fertility, beauty, pregnancy, childbirth, weaving and
embroidery
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Incan:
Mama Killa, Mama Ocllo |
Pachaimma +
Neelambigai + Lakshmi
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Xolotl
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twin of Quetzalcoatl – the god of fire, lightning
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Venus as evening star, darkness, sickness, deformities
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Quetzalcoatl but dark version
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Murugan’s dark aspect, w.r.t absence of light, healing and
medicine
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