The powerful Aztec God Ehecatl is very close to my heart. I used his epithet Lord Wind aptly as the title of a memoir about my second coming out in 1970 into a new gay world—when I aimlessly wandered in whatever direction the wind blew.
My gallery of distinctive codex images of Ehecatl is entitled The Aztec Lord of Life. I have meticulously re-created his image above from a page in Codex Borgia, pairing him with Mictlantecuhtli, the Lord of the Land of the Dead. It is inarguably a tour de force of Aztec iconography, incorporating the 20 day-signs (tonalli) as they relate to human body parts. The “duplex” composition appears in a number of codices, though none is as exquisite as this.
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Richard Balthazar 