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title: Huitzilopochtli
description: The Aztec god of war.
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<h2 id="huitzilopochtli">Huitzilopochtli</h2>

Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec god of the sun and war. His name means "he who has".

Huitzilopochtli held great importance and power in the central highlands of **Mexico**, reaching his zenith a century before the Spanish conquest.

This god shared his temple with [Tlaloc, the god of rain](/en/316835/) in the pyramid at the center of **Tenochtitlan**.

Huitzilopochtli was miraculously conceived by the earth goddess Coatlicue, emerging fully armed from her womb and slaying his sister and his four hundred brothers.

Huitzilopochtli is the radiance that conquers darkness and gives birth to the sun. On the occasion of this god's festival, human sacrifices were performed, offering him prisoners captured by the Aztec armies.