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Tzitzimime
The Stars and Eclipse Shadows
Danger Level: 10/10
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
Abilities
Eclipse ManifestationStar FormMass DestructionDarkness Spreading
Lore & Legend
Star-Demons at the Eclipse
Tzitzimime are female stellar beings who threaten to devour people when the sun fails — eclipses, the New Fire year's panic. Itzpapalotl is their best-known leader. Codex and Sahagún notices dress them in skulls and claws; they are cosmology, not a swamp cryptid.
The Fifth Sun's contract is that they wait. Ritual keeps the sun fed so they stay aloft.
Primary Sources
“When the sun is eclipsed, the tzitzimime, the star-demons, descend to devour people; women in labor were thought especially exposed.”