Aztec Sacred Center

"Birth, Life, Death, and Regeneration are embodied in these trees of the cardinal directions. At the top (east), the tree of the rising sun standing between the god of that name and the god of sharp-cutting-stone. To the right, the tree of sacrifice, between the maize god and the lord of the dead. At the foot of the picture, a tree surmounted by a hummingbird between the goddess of flowers and the goddess of drunkenness. Finally, split in the middle, the tree of regeneration between the god of rain and the god of the underworld." - Roger Cook

The four directions connect to a sacred center, shown here as Xiuhtecuhlti. In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtecuhlti was the God of fire, day, and heat.

Codex Fejervary-Mayer depicts aspects of the tonalpohualli, the sacred 260-day Mesoamerican augural cycle.

(The five regions of the world, from Codex Fejervary-Mayer, between the fourteen and sixteenth centuries. Late Postclassic Mesoamerican.)