You are standing at the entrance to Digital Tlachieloni, a website (currently still being built) dedicated to information on the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. If you walk straight forward you'll enter a flat topped pyramid, to your left is an observatory, and to your right is the path to a zoo. And standing right in front of you is a sharply dressed man with jet black glasses that reflect your gaze back at you.
Obsidian Cross says: I'll be your host and tour guide while you're visiting this temple. First please read the basic information brochure or else.
Tezcatlipoca is one of the major Aztec deities with a complex and nuanced character that all too often in modern culture is overlooked and reduced to a colonialist caricature. This website is not for and will not discuss modern commerical works of fiction that feature Tezcatlipoca, but it is in part a reaction to them and their broader undue influence on the public perception of Tezcatlipoca and Aztec mythology as a whole.
One of Tezcatlipoca's symbols, referred to as 'the instrument to see.' My explaination of the name is that this website lets you see more of Tezcatlipoca. It is not a well known part of his iconography, most of my searches for it on google brought back Spanish results. So naming this website after it as opposed to the more obvious obsidian mirror makes it a bit more distincitve and helps with discovery, since so few English speakers are using the word tlachieloni. And it reflects my goal to spread less popular pieces of Tezcatlipoca knowledge.
Obsidian Cross says: There are two ways you can navigate this temple, through the visual map or the textual map. It's not fully constructured yet however, some links in the map will lead only to a void waiting to be filled. You may wonder why there isn't any way to return to this page on the visual map, but that's an incorrect assumption.
