Xipe Totec’s Family Tree

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Family

• Omecihuatl(parent),Ometecuhtli(parent),Huitzilopochtli(sibling),Quetzalcoatl(sibling),Tezcatlipoca(sibling),Xolotl(sibling)— Marriage · Miraculous

  Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the primordial dual couple, generated the four Tezcatlipocas — Xipe Totec, Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, and Quetzalcoatl — along with Xolotl, as the foundational forces of creation.

  ⚠ Huitzilopochtli's origin is dual-layered: the Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas places him among the four sons of Ometeotl, while the Florentine Codex narrates his miraculous birth from Coatlicue at Coatepec.

Created

• Chalchiuhtlicue,Tlaloc

  Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totec created Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue to preside over water and rain, appointing them lords of the waters as part of the gods' ordering of the newly made world.

Member of

• Four Tezcatlipocas

  The Four Tezcatlipocas — Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totec — are the primordial sons of Ometeotl who took turns presiding over the successive Suns, each age ending in catastrophe when one brother overthrew another.

  ⚠ The Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas names this specific grouping. Other traditions substitute Tlaloc for Huitzilopochtli or vary the identifications of the four brothers.