- Cipactli (Classical Nahuatl: Cipactli "crocodile" or "caiman") was the first day of the Aztec divinatory count of 13 X 20 days (the tonalpohualli)...
- The Cipactli is also quite heavily featured in Mayan mythology and it is also considered to have heavily influenced the much later civilizations of the region.
- In the beginning, the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, transcending their mutual enmity, transformed themselves into serpents to tear apart Cipactli.
- In Aztec cosmology, Cipactli was a celestial beast with the teeth and skin of a crocodile. A deadly monster, Cipactli was revered and feared by the Aztecs.
- Cipactli played a significant role in Aztec cosmology and creation myths. She was seen as a symbol of chaos and destruction, but also of creation and rebirth.
- Protector of the day Cipactli (Crocodile) is Tonacatecuhtli, the primordial god of creation and fertility.
- The Aztecs of Mexico held a similar belief: that the Earth was created from the destruction of a large sea demon, created by and known to the gods as Cipactli.
- A construct swallowed by this type of cipactli takes 6d6 points of damage in addition to the 20d6 points of damage normally caused by the swallow whole ability.
- In Aztec mythology Cipactli's body, in its form as the world-toad TLALTECUHTLA, is torn apart by TEZCATLIPOCA and QUETZALCOATL to create the earth.
