Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (also Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli) is the Lord of the House of the Dawn, Venus as the Morning Star.
Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli is a manifestion of
Quetzalcoatl
, who has
Xolotl,
Venus as the Evening Star
as his twin brother.
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is a god of war.
In
Teotihuacán
Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli attacked
Tonatiuh, the newly created Sun
, by throwing an atl-atl dart at him.
Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli missed.
Tonatiuh threw a dart back, piercing Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli through the head.
This transformed Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli into
Itztlacoliuhqui,
god of stone and coldness
.
In the tonalpohualli, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is the Lord of the Day for days with number 12 (mahtlactli-omome in Nahuatl).