Wildcat Trickster of Aztec

trickster · Mexico · Mesoamerica

Not independently attested as an Aztec trickster. The Aztecs honored the jaguar and ocelot as warrior emblems, not tricksters, and their trickster roles belonged to the coyote. The nearest shape-shifting trickster god is Tezcatlipoca, whose nagual was a jaguar and whose smoking mirror worked mischief; no wildcat trickster figure appears in the sources.

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