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The Darts of Dawn: The Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli Venus Complex in the Iconography of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest

Fundamental concepts pertaining to worldview and cosmology are currently, as in the past, shared throughout Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Included here are “maps” of the cosmos and cultural landscapes, such as directional symbolism, as well as the more specific ideology of rain-making and the nature of many supernatural beings (James 2000; Mathiowetz 2011; Schaafsma 1999, 2000, 2001; Schaafsma and Taube 2006; Taube 1986, 2001; Young 1994). Among ancient and contemporary indigenous people of Mesoamerica, the planet Venus plays a central role in the art, ritual, oral traditions, and symbolism of warfare. In highland Central Mexico—one of the best-documented contact period regions of ancient Mesoamerican religion—the Morning Star dominates as Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, a fearsome being but also an aspect of the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, an embodiment of the eastern wind and the gentle breath of life (Carlson 1991; Graulich 1992; Taube 2001). The extensive and complex religious symbolism linked to Venus as Morning Star and warfare in Mesoamerica is strikingly similar