Sunday, December 31, 2006

Coatlicue - goddess


The Aztec earth goddess Coatlicue – Also known as “Snake Skirt” was the mother of the Aztec gods Quetzalcoatl, Xolotl and Coyolxauhqui as well as several hundred less significant ones. She was said to have been impregnated by a ball of down from heaven; she was killed by Coyolxauhqui her daughter but at the same time Huitzilopochtli was born.

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