Is it the same as the Christian concept of the devil? I've heared is isn't exactly the same.
2006-10-02 09:01:18 · 5 answers · asked by Nancy A 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Tezcatlipoca demanded human sacrifice and cannibalism. The living representative of Tezcatlipoca was a captive/slave raised from childhood to act the part. At the end of each year he was sacrificed and another captive/slave replaced him. For one year he walked, brilliantly attired, throughout the capital city playing his flute, encountering and impressing adults and children with specific rhetoric ingrained in him from childhood. Four stewards accompanied him. He was the trickster on display.
http://www.trinity.edu/org/tricksters/trixway/current/Vol%201/Vol%201_1/Tstocker.html
Blessings )O(
Edit: I concur with poster below, that it is not the Christian Devil. Loki is the Norse equivelent of Tezcatlipoca.
2006-10-02 09:26:41 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it has nothing to do with any christian concepts of the devil. According to First Nations teachings, the trickster is both a Wise One and a Fool, and is the Greatest of Teachers.
- And according to Wikipedia, the idea that the Aztec trickster is akin to the devil is a concept developed and promoted by the Europeans/Spanish.
2006-10-02 16:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is not the same as the devil.
In other cultures he is also called Hermes, Esu there are a few other but they do not come to mind now. I do not have my files with me on the research i have done thus far.
Anyway, they are not associated with the devil. They are all the givers of choice and possibilities. They call them tricksters because they know all and can fool you if you are not wise.
You must respect them at all times. They will give you your dure respect as well.
2006-10-03 13:58:06 · answer #3 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Aztec trickster was the monkey, similar to the Coyote in SW America. The trickster is an archetypal figure seen in many New World religions.
These people had NO knowledge of Christianity. Please don't try to shoehorn them into that mold.
2006-10-04 07:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by Gevera Bert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pronounced Tez-kat-li-poka.
Other cultures call him Loki.
Not the same as the devil. Loki is a trickster, and can be a very vengeful god, indeed.
He shares much more similarities with the Christian God than the Christian Devil, actually.
2006-10-02 18:15:59 · answer #5 · answered by RHCCBonnie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋