Huixtocihuatl
Huixtocihuatl (also Uixtochihuat or Uixtociuatl) was according to Aztec mythology the goddess of salt, salt water and fertility. Therefore, she was especially worshiped in the salt mines near Tenochtitlan . However, it was already known in pre-Aztec times. Her name comes from Nahuatl and means something like woman of salt . She is considered the older sister of the rain god Tlaloc . In the seventh month of the eighteenth holy Mexican year it was celebrated, in which there were also human sacrifices. Other sources refer to her as the wife of Tezcatlipoca . Huixtocihuatl wore a dress that was adorned with jadeite and wave patterns. Snail shells and the rattles of rattlesnakes were attached to their heels . Her headband was adorned with green feathers, a shield in one hand and flowers and feathers in the other.
literature
- González Torres, Yólotl: Diccionario de mitología y religious de Mesoamérica , series of publications Referencias Larousse, Larousse, Madrid 1996, ISBN 9-706-07802-9
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supporting documents
- ↑ Vollmer, Wilhelm: Dictionary of Mythology. Stuttgart 1874, p. 260.