Mictlantecuhtli

Life cannot exist without death, that's why I'm here. My name is Mictlantecuhtli and within Mexica mythology I am the lord of darkness. In my kingdom, called Mictlan, I welcome all humans who die naturally.

I was created by the gods Huitzilopochtli and Quetzalcóatl in the Omeyocan, a place equivalent to heaven. They thought that to value life, they had to create the god of death. How can you love the light without knowing the shadow? That's why, just why I'm here.

My name is pronounced in Nahuatl. It is made up of two words: Mictlan, mansion of the dead and Tecutli, lord. And it translates as “the lord of the mansion of the dead”.

I am the one who rules over the death of human beings, but at the same time I am the giver of life. Why? One day Quetzalcóatl descended to the underworld and deposited his semen on ground bones that gave life to man.