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To appease the deity, as well as to ask for good harvest, priests often engaged in child sacrifice. [5] Dried seed maize, harvested and retained for the following year, bore the title Chicomecōātl, while maize consumed following harvest season was generally referred to as Cinteotl .
The female equivalent of Xipe Totec was the goddess Xilonen-Chicomecoatl. [7] Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. [8] He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is often depicted as being red beneath the flayed ...
In the month of Huey Tozoztli which preceded Toxcatl, he would be ritually wed to four maidens who impersonated the goddesses Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan and Huixtocihuatl, and he lived with them for twenty days. Four days before the main ceremony the tlatoani secluded himself in his palace and the Tezcatlipoca impersonator and his four ...
Mualani (also called Muolani or simply Mua; lani = "heaven/sky" in Hawaiian) was a Hawaiian High Chiefess who lived on the island of Oahu and was a Princess of Koʻolau. She was a daughter of Princess Hinakaimauliʻawa of Koʻolau, [1] who was Chief Kalehenui's daughter. [2] [3] [4] Mualani's father was called Kahiwakaʻapu.
Xilonen may refer to: Chicomecōātl, the Aztec goddess of agriculture; Xilonen, the daily newspaper of the World Conference on Women, 1975; Xilonen, a character in ...
Kinich Ahau was the patron of one of the four years of the 52-year cycle (Landa). In the rituals introducing this year, war dances were executed. [4] Kinich Ahau was apparently considered an aspect of the upper god, Itzamna.
The player may freely explore an open-world map. Here Aether, the male Traveler, is seen gliding, but the player can switch to other party members. Genshin Impact is an open-world, action role-playing game that allows the player to control one of four interchangeable characters in a party. [4]
The alchemist and physician J. J. Becher proposed the phlogiston theory.. The phlogiston theory, a superseded scientific theory, postulated the existence of a fire-like element dubbed phlogiston (/ f l ɒ ˈ dʒ ɪ s t ən, f l oʊ-,-ɒ n /) [1] [2] contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.