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10 Important Aztec Gods and Goddesses
The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally ...
Chalchiuhtlicue, which means “She Who Wears a Jade Skirt,” was the Aztec goddess of rivers, lakes, and freshwater. She was also associated with infants and children. Naming rituals presided ...
So it's not at all surprising that the name Tlazolteotl literally means, in the Aztec language, 'filth goddess'. She was a figure of fertility, vegetation, and renewal, the ultimate green goddess ...
bearing the mesmerizingly horrific likeness of the earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli (pronounced tlal-TEK-tli)—the symbol of the Aztec life and death cycle, squatting to give birth while drinking her ...
Juan Diego depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe is phony. One opinion was a fake made in Europe and brought to Mexico by Franciscans. Another suggested the tilma was painted over the image of a dark-eyed ...
Millhauser, John K. 2017. Debt as a double-edged risk: A historical case from Nahua (Aztec) Mexico. Economic Anthropology, Vol. 4, Issue. 2, p. 263.
Other important pieces include a representation of the Aztec goddess of maize Chicomecóatl, a green stone mask of Xipe Tótec, a god known as “Our Lord the Flayed One,” and a shield believed to have ...
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