# Ehecatl

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ehecatl
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ehecatl.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehecatl
> Source revision: 1336765368
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Aztec wind deity

For the Mexican unmanned aircraft, see [Hydra Technologies Ehécatl](/source/Hydra_Technologies_Eh%C3%A9catl).

Statue of Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, in the [Brooklyn Museum](/source/Brooklyn_Museum) (New York City)

**Ehecatl** ([Classical Nahuatl](/source/Classical_Nahuatl_language): *Ehēcatl* [\[eˈʔeːkatɬ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Nahuatl), [modern Nahuatl pronunciation](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/Ejekatl.ogg/Ejekatl.ogg.mp3)[ⓘ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ejekatl.ogg)) is a [pre-Columbian](/source/Pre-Columbian) deity associated with the [wind](/source/Wind), who features in [Aztec mythology](/source/Aztec_mythology) and the mythologies of other cultures from the central Mexico region of [Mesoamerica](/source/Mesoamerica). He is most usually interpreted as the aspect of the [Feathered Serpent](/source/Feathered_Serpent_(deity)) deity ([Quetzalcoatl](/source/Quetzalcoatl) in [Aztec](/source/Aztec) and other [Nahua](/source/Nahua_people) cultures) as a god of wind, and is therefore also known as **Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl**.[1] Ehecatl also figures prominently as one of the creator gods and culture heroes in the mythical [creation accounts](/source/Mesoamerican_creation_accounts) documented for pre-Columbian central Mexican cultures.[2]

Since the wind blows in all directions, Ehecatl was associated with all the [cardinal directions](/source/Cardinal_direction). His temple was built as a cylinder in order to reduce the air resistance, and was sometimes portrayed with two protruding masks through which the wind blew.

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Miller and Taube (1993, p. 84)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Miller and Taube (1993, pp. 70,84)

## References

- Carrasco, David (1982). *Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition*. Chicago, IL: [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-226-09487-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-226-09487-1). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [0226094871](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/0226094871).

- Milbrath, Susan (1999). *Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars*. The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies. Austin: [University of Texas Press](/source/University_of_Texas_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-292-75225-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-292-75225-3). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [40848420](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/40848420).

- [Miller, Mary](/source/Mary_Miller_(art_historian)); [Karl Taube](/source/Karl_Taube) (1993). [*The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion*](https://archive.org/details/godssymbolsofa00mill). London: [Thames & Hudson](/source/Thames_%26_Hudson). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-500-05068-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-500-05068-6). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [27667317](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/27667317).

- [Séjourné, Laurette](/source/Laurette_S%C3%A9journ%C3%A9) (1981). *El pensamiento náhuatl cifrado por los calendarios*. Colección América nuestra. América indígena, no. 35 (in Spanish). Josefina Oliva de Coll (trans.), Françoise Bagot (illus.), Julio Pliego (photog.). Mexico D.F: [Siglo XXI Editores](/source/Siglo_XXI_Editores). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [968-23-1057-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/968-23-1057-1). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [8563957](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/8563957).

- [Smith, Michael E.](/source/Michael_E._Smith_(archaeologist)) (2003). *The Aztecs* (2nd ed.). Oxford and Malden, MA: [Blackwell Publishers](/source/Blackwell_Publishers). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-631-23015-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-631-23015-7). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [48579073](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/48579073).

- Wimmer, Alexis (2006). ["Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique"](http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/nahuatl.page.html) (online version, incorporating reproductions from *Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine* [1885], by [Rémi Siméon](/source/R%C3%A9mi_Sim%C3%A9on)). (in French and Nahuatl languages)

## Contemporary representations

- [El Vigilante (sculpture)](/source/El_Vigilante_(sculpture))

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Ehecatl](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ehecatl).

v t e Aztec mythology Primordials Ōmeteōtl: Ometēcuthli and Omecihuātl (or Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tōnacācihuātl) Creator gods (Four Tezcatlipocas) Huītzilōpōchtli Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Xipe Totec (or Camaxtle) Deities Lords of the Night Centeōtl Chalchiuhtlicue Cinteotl Mictlāntēcutli Piltzintecuhtli Tepēyōllōtl Tezcatlipoca (see Creator gods) Tláloc Tlazōlteōtl Xiuhtecuhtli Lords of the Day Citlālicue Mictēcacihuātl Nanahuatzin Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli Tlaltecuhtli Tōnatiuh Acolnahuacatl Acuecueyotl (see Chalchiuhtlicue) Atlahua Atlacoya Chalchiuhtotolin Chantico Chicomecōātl Chīmalmā Cihuacōātl Cihuatecayotl Cipactonal Cōātlīcue Coyolxāuhqui Ehecatl Huēhuecoyōtl Huitztlampaehecatl Huixtocihuatl Ilamatecuhtli Ītzpāpālōtl Itzpapalotlcihuatl Itzpapalotltotec Itztlacoliuhqui Ixtlilton Macuiltochtli Macuilxochitl Malinalxochitl Mayahuel Metztli Mictlanpachecatl Mixcoatl Opochtli Oxomoco Painal Patecatl Tēcciztēcatl Temazcalteci Tepoztēcatl Tlacotzontli Tlalocayotl Tlilhua Toci Toltecatl Tonantzin Xilonen Xiuhcōātl Xōchipilli Xōchiquetzal Xochitlicue Xocotl Xolotl Yacatecuhtli Zacatzontli Groups Ahuiateteo Centzonmīmixcōa Centzonhuītznāhua Centzon Tōtōchtin Cintēteo Cihuateteo Civateteo Ehecatotontli Tiānquiztli Tzitzimitl Xiuhtotontli Places Anahuac Aztlán Cemanahuac Chicomoztoc Huēyi Teōcalli Mictlān (The Underworld) Tamoanchan Teotihuacan Thirteen Heavens Tlālōcān Tlillan-Tlapallan Tōllān Beliefs and practice Five Suns The Stinking Corpse Use of entheogens Codices Aubin Codex Aubin Manuscript no. 20 Aubin Tonalamatl Codex Azcatitlan Codices Azoyú I & II Badianus Manuscript Codices Becker I & II Boban Aztec Calendar Wheel Codex Bodley Codex Borbonicus Codex Borgia Codex Boturini Mapas de Cuauhtinchan 1-4 Codex Chimalpahin Codex Chimalpopoca Codex Colombino Codex Cospi Codex Cozcatzin Codex Dresden Codex Durán Codex Fejérváry-Mayer Codex Florentine Codex Huamantla Códice de Huichapan Codex Huexotzinco Humboldt fragment 1 Codex Ixtlilxochitl Codex Laud Lienzo Antonio de León Lienzo de Coixtlahuaca I & II Lienzo de Santa María Nativitas Lienzo de Santiago Ihuitlan Lienzo de Zacatepec I & II Codex Madrid Codex Magliabechiano Matrícula de Tributos Codex Mexicanus Crónica Mexicayotl Códice Maya de México Codex Osuna Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco Paris Codex Plano en papel de maguey Primeros Memoriales Codex Porfirio Díaz Mapa Quinatzin Codex Ramírez Codex Reese Relación de Michoacán Codex Ríos Romances de los señores de Nueva España Codex Santa Maria Asunción Selden Roll Mapa Sigüenza Codex Telleriano-Remensis Tira de Tepechpan Anales de Tlatelolco Codex Tlatelolco Mapa Tloztin Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca Codex Totomixtlahuaca Codex Tudela Anales de Tula Codex Vaticanus B Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I Codex Xolotl Codex Zouche-Nuttall

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ehecatl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehecatl) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehecatl?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.