Tezcatlipoca appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex Book 1 and feast books record Tezcatlipoca as smoking-mirror god of night, contest, and rulership — named deity with rites and epithets. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
appears in · sourced · culturally specific
Smoking mirror is sacred to Tezcatlipoca.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex ties tezcatl, the smoking obsidian mirror, to Tezcatlipoca’s name and cult — the mirror as that god’s sacred instrument and epithet-object. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
sacred to · sourced · culturally specific