[[Image:Mexico City (2018) - 397.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Huastec statue of Ometochtli.]] thumb|250px|right|Rabbit-shaped vessel probably used for containing pulque; the rabbit, and the rabbit deity Ome Tochtli, was a symbol of pulque. In Aztec mythology, '''Ometochtli''' ({{IPA|nah|oːmetoːtʃtɬi|pron}}) is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque (''{{lang|nah|octli}}''),<ref>The origins of the word ''pulque'' are uncertain. ''Octli'' is the (Nahuatl) name by which the beverage is referred to in corresponding historical texts of the post-conquest period.</ref> an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented sap of the ''maguey'' plant.<ref>Aguilar-Moreno 2007, p.149; Miller & Taube 1993, p.136</ref> By the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology a collection of beliefs and religious practices had arisen in the context of the manufacture and ritualistic consumption of the beverage, known as the "pulque (or octli) cult" with probable origins in a mountainous region of central Mexico. In Aztec society ''octli'' rituals formed a major component of Aztec religion and observance, and there were numerous local deities and classes of ''sacerdotes'' ("priests") associated with it.<ref>Smith 2003, p.88</ref>
"Ometochtli" is a calendrical name in Classical Nahuatl, with the literal meaning of "two rabbit".
==See also== *Centzon Totochtin *Macuil-Tochtli *Mayahuel *Tepoztecatl
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==References== {{refbegin|indent=yes}}<!--BEGIN biblio format. --> * {{cite book |author=Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel |year=2007 |title=Handbook to Life in the Aztec World |location=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533083-0 |oclc=81150666}} * {{cite book |author=Miller, Mary |author-link=Mary Miller (art historian) |author2=Karl Taube |author2-link=Karl Taube |year=1993 |title=The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=0-500-05068-6 |oclc=27667317 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/godssymbolsofa00mill }} * {{cite book |author=Sahagún, Bernardino de |author-link=Bernardino de Sahagún |year=1997 |orig-date=ca.1558–61 |title=Primeros Memoriales |others=Thelma D. Sullivan (English trans. and paleography of Nahuatl text), with H.B. Nicholson, Arthur J.O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, Eloise Quiñones Keber, and Wayne Ruwet (completion, revisions, and ed.) |series=Civilization of the American Indians series vol. 200, part 2 |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-2909-9 |oclc=35848992}} * {{cite book |author=Smith, Michael E. |author-link=Michael E. Smith (archaeologist)|year=2003 |title=The Aztecs |edition=2nd |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Malden, MA |isbn=0-631-23015-7 |oclc=48579073}} {{refend}}<!-- END biblio format style -->
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Category:Aztec pulque gods Category:Deities of wine and beer