Aztec goddess of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism
Chalchiuhtlicue
Goddess of water, mistress of lakes, rivers and seas
Chalchiutlicue in the Codex Borbonicus
Other names
Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue, Matlalcueye
Abode
Tlalocan[1]
Ilhuicatl-Meztli (1st Heaven)[1]
Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl (Gulf of Mexico)[1]
Gender
Female
Region
Mesoamerica
Ethnic group
Aztec, Tlaxcaltec (Nahua)
Personal information
Parents
Created by the Tezcatlipocas[3] (Codex Zumarraga)
Siblings
None
Consort
Tlaloc
Children
With Tlaloc: the Tlaloque (Nappatecuhtli, Tomiyauhtecuhtli, Opochtli, Yauhtli)[1] and Huixtocihuatl[2]
With Tonatiuh: Centzon Mimixcoa (Leyenda de los Soles)
Equivalents
Greek equivalent
Poseidon
Chalchiuhtlicue, unknown Aztec artist, 1200–1521, gray basalt, red ochre. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009.33
Chalchiuhtlicue[t͡ʃaːɬt͡ʃiwˈt͡ɬikʷeː] (from chālchihuitl[t͡ʃaːɬˈt͡ʃiwit͡ɬ] "jade" and cuēitl[kʷeːit͡ɬ] "skirt") (also spelled Chalciuhtlicue, Chalchiuhcueye, or Chalcihuitlicue) ("She of the Jade Skirt") is an Aztec deity of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism.[citation needed] Chalchiuhtlicue is associated with fertility, and she is the patroness of childbirth.[4] Chalchiuhtlicue was highly revered in Aztec culture at the time of the Spanish conquest, and she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico.[5] Chalchiuhtlicue belongs to a larger group of Aztec rain gods,[6] and she is closely related to another Aztec water god called Chalchiuhtlatonal.[7]
^ abcdCecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 567, 568, 569, 570, 571. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 206, 207. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. p. 351. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^Read & González 2002: 140–142
^According to the 16th-century Dominican friar and historian Diego Durán. "Universally revered" is quoted from his Book of the Gods and Rites, written 1574-1576 and published in English translation (Durán 1971: 261), as cited by Read & González 2002: 141.
^Sahagún, Bernardino de (1970). Florentine Codex: General history of the things of New Spain: Book I, the Gods. Anderson, Arthur J. O., Dibble, Charles E. (2nd, rev ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research. p. 6. ISBN 9780874800005. OCLC 877854386.
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