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Women in Carnival of Huejotzingo Chalchiuhtlicue was the river and ocean goddess, who also presided over Aztec wedding ceremonies. She is usually shown wearing jade; here she holds spinning and weaving tools (image from the Codex Rios).
In Aztec art, the postpartum female body is often depicted with pendulous breasts and stomach folds. Within Aztec artistic tradition, cihuateteo are commonly depicted with taut stomachs, exposed breasts, and prominent nipples. These are all features that serve to highlight their unrealized potential as mothers, as these women died before having ...
Marina or Malintzin [maˈlintsin] (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche [la maˈlintʃe], a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. [1]
These are individual honorary classes for women. Tonantzin, goddess who is called "our mother". She is a goddess that can also be any other names (e.g. Mother Earth). Tēteohīnnān, meaning "mother of gods," is another epithet for Tonantzin and many other goddesses. Chāntico, goddess of fires in the family hearth and volcanoes.
Ītzpāpalōtl [a] ("Obsidian Butterfly") was a goddess in Aztec religion.. She was a striking skeletal warrior and death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh.She ruled over the paradise world of Tamōhuānchān, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and the place identified as where humans were created.
Mayahuel (Nahuatl pronunciation:) is the female deity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the Aztec cultures.
Cihuacōātl [a] was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses [b] [1] in Aztec mythology. She was sometimes known as Quilaztli. [2] Cihuacōātl was especially associated with midwives, and with the sweat lodges where midwives practiced. [3]
According to Miller, "Tlaltecuhtli literally means 'Earth Lord,' but most Aztec representations clearly depict this creature as female, and despite the expected male gender of the name, some sources call Tlaltecuhtli a goddess. [She is] usually in a hocker, or birth-giving squat, with head flung backwards and her mouth of flint blades open." [8]