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-**Cipactli** is a [[teteo|Deity]] and primeval sea monster, part crocodilian, part fish, and part toad or frog, with indefinite gender. They are closely related to [[Tlaltecuhtli]]. Always hungry, every joint on its body was adorned with an extra mouth. The deity Tezcatlipoca sacrificed a foot when he used it as bait to draw the monster nearer. He and Quetzalcoatl created the earth from its body.+**Cipactli** (Crocodile)[(https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cipactli)] is a [[teteo|Deity]] and primeval sea monster, part crocodilian, part fish, and part toad or frog, with indefinite gender. They are closely related to [[Tlaltecuhtli]].
  
 Karl A. Taube has noted that among the Formative-period Olmec and the pre-Hispanic Maya peoples, crocodilians were identified with rain-bringing wind, probably because of the widespread belief that wind and rain clouds are “breathed” out of cave openings in the earth. A series of Olmec-style basreliefs from Chalcatzingo in the state of Morelos portrays crocodilians breathing rain clouds from their upturned mouths. Portable green stone Olmec sculptures depict crocodilians in similar positions, indicating that they are probably also breathing.[4] Karl A. Taube has noted that among the Formative-period Olmec and the pre-Hispanic Maya peoples, crocodilians were identified with rain-bringing wind, probably because of the widespread belief that wind and rain clouds are “breathed” out of cave openings in the earth. A series of Olmec-style basreliefs from Chalcatzingo in the state of Morelos portrays crocodilians breathing rain clouds from their upturned mouths. Portable green stone Olmec sculptures depict crocodilians in similar positions, indicating that they are probably also breathing.[4]
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-Cipactli is depicted as a reptilian monster with various bodily configurations, sometimes amid the primordial waters. After Their dismemberment by Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, which transformed Them into the divine being Tlaltecuhtli, They are often depicted as a toothed and clawed firmament or symbolic open mouth upon which other earthly events take place.+Cipactli is depicted as a reptilian monster with various bodily configurations, sometimes amid the primordial waters, with mouths on each of Their joints. After Their dismemberment by [[Quetzalcoatl]] and [[Tezcatlipoca]], which transformed Them into the divine being Tlaltecuhtli, They are often depicted as a toothed and clawed firmament or symbolic open mouth upon which other earthly events take place. 
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 +Tezcatlipoca cut off His own foot to use as bait to draw Cipactli nearer, and then killed and dismembered Them. He and Quetzalcoatl then created the earth from Their body.
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