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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 ...
Chicōmecōātl, as depicted in the Codex Borgia. In Aztec mythology, Chicōmecōātl [t͡ʃikoːmeˈkoːaːt͡ɬ] "Seven Serpent", was the Aztec goddess of agriculture during the Middle Culture period. [1]
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 ...
Xilonen, the goddess of maize, changed sex over the course of the growing season, turning into Centeotl, the Maize Lord. [13] Maize in its early stages was slender with long hair and had milky kernels whose shapes reminded the Mexica of breasts, all suggestive of a woman's body, while maize in its later stages is hard, erect, and phallic shaped ...
Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. [1] The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures.
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 ...
The jaguar was an animal sacred to Tezcatlipoca. Aztec obsidian mirror. Tezcatlipoca (Classical Nahuatl: Tēzcatlīpohca [teːs̻kat͡ɬiːˈpoʔkaˀ]) or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion.
Huītzilōpōchtli killing Centzonhuītznāhua as depicted in the Florentine Codex. In Aztec mythology, the Centzonhuītznāhua (Nahuatl pronunciation: [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwa] or, the plural, Centzon Huītznāuhtin, [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwtin]) were the gods of the southern stars.