“The mirrors that have survived may well have actually been attached to statues of the god. Tezcatlipoca was the god of divination and providence, amongst several other things, and the obsidian ...

Obsidian mirrors were closely associated with the deity Tezcatlipoca, whose name translates as “Smoking Mirror.” In depictions of the deity, one of his feet is typically replaced with an image ...

These objects were associated with the god Tezcatlipoca (literally “smoking ... For the Aztecs, the obsidian mirrors had a very particular religious and ritual usage to which specific cultural ...

One deity, Tezcatlipoca, is even named 'smoking mirror' and often depicted wearing circular obsidian mirrors, as symbols of premonition and power. This symbolic value is what likely made them ...

Aztec art depicts the deity Tezcatlipoca, whose name translates to “smoking mirror,” as wearing a circular obsidian mirror—a “medium and symbol of revelation, premonition and power ...

Geochemical analysis of the museum objects indicate that they were all made from obsidian ... Such mirrors have also been seen in Aztec illustrations of Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec lord of the smoking ...

Campbell / Antiquity An obsidian “spirit mirror” used ... and capturing the image and soul of a person. The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, or “Smoking Mirror,” is frequently depicted wearing ...

he may have been aware of the significance of obsidian, and the omniscience of Tezcatlipoca’s mirrors would have had an obvious attraction,” the researchers write. “Indeed, this may have ...