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Xōchiquetzal, the Glossary

In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal (Xōchiquetzal), also called Ichpochtli Ichpōchtli, meaning "maiden"),Nahuatl Dictionary. (1997). Wired Humanities Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved September 1, 2012, from was a goddess associated with fertility, beauty, and love, serving as a protector of young mothers and a patroness of pregnancy, childbirth, and the crafts practiced by women such as weaving and embroidery.^[1]

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Aztec goddesses
Beauty goddesses
Handicraft deities

Ahuiateteo

Āhuiatēteoh or Mācuīltōnalequeh were a group of five Aztec gods of excess and pleasure.

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Ahwahnee (Aztec culture)

Ahwahnee (Enchanter Young-Woman, also spelled ahuiani in Spanish sources), in the Aztec world, is the name for the female young entertainers who act as hostesses and whose skills include performing various arts such as music, dance, games and conversation, mainly to entertain male customers, usually Aztec warriors.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Xōchiquetzal and Aphrodite are beauty goddesses and fertility goddesses.

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Aztec mythology

Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico.

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Aztecs

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

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Beauty

Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Centeōtl

In Aztec mythology, Centeōtl (also known as Centeocihuatl or Cinteotl) is the maize deity.

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Codex Borgia

The Codex Borgia (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Borg.mess.1), also known as Codex Borgianus, Manuscrit de Veletri and Codex Yohualli Ehecatl, is a pre-Columbian Middle American pictorial manuscript from Central Mexico featuring calendrical and ritual content, dating from the 16th century.

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Ethnology (journal)

Ethnology was a journal founded in 1962 by George Peter Murdock, published by the University of Pittsburgh.

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Female

An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.

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Fertility

Fertility in colloquial terms refers the ability to have offspring.

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Goddess I

Goddess I is the Taube's Schellhas-Zimmermann letter designation for one of the most important Maya deities: a youthful woman to whom considerable parts of the post-Classic codices are dedicated, and who equally figures in Classic Period scenes. Xōchiquetzal and Goddess I are fertility goddesses.

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Ixchel

Ixchel or Ix Chel is the 16th-century name of the aged jaguar goddess of midwifery and medicine in ancient Maya culture.

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Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

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Piltzintecuhtli

In Aztec mythology, Piltzintecuhtli was a god of the rising sun, healing, and visions, associated with Tōnatiuh.

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Quetzal

Quetzals are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family.

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Rémi Siméon

Rémi Siméon (1 October 1827 in Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, France – 23 November 1890 in Paris, France) was a French lexicographer.

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Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Tamoanchan

Tamōhuānchān is a mythical location of origin known to the Mesoamerican cultures of the central Mexican region in the Late Postclassic period.

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Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca (Tēzcatlipōca) or Tezcatl Ipoca was a central deity in Aztec religion.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.

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Tlaxcala

Tlaxcala (from Tlaxcallān), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala (Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala), is one of the 32 federal entities that comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Tlaxcaltec

The Tlaxcallans, or Tlaxcaltecs, are an indigenous Nahua people who originate from Tlaxcala, Mexico.

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Tláloc

Tláloc (Tláloc) is the god of rain in Aztec religion.

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Toltec

The Toltec culture was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 CE.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (also known as Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Virgin of Ocotlán

The Virgin of Ocotlán is a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ocotlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Xōchipilli

italic is the god of art, games, dance, flowers, and song in Aztec mythology.

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Xiuhtecuhtli

In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtēcuhtli ("Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat.

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Xochicuicatl cuecuechtli

Xochicuicatl cuecuechtli (Ribald Flowersong) is the first contemporary opera exclusively developed in Nahuatl language and accompanied by an orchestra of Native Mexican instruments.

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Xochitlicue

Xochitlicue (meaning in Nahuatl 'the one that has her skirt of flowers') is the Aztec goddess of fertility, patroness of life and death, guide of rebirth, younger sister of Coatlicue, Huitzilopochtli's mother according Codex Florentine; and Chimalma, Quetzalcoatl's mother according Codex Chimalpopoca. Xōchiquetzal and Xochitlicue are Aztec goddesses and fertility goddesses.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xōchiquetzal

Also known as Ichpuchtli, Xochiquetsal, Xochiquétzal.

Xōchiquetzal, the Glossary

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Aztec goddesses

Beauty goddesses

Handicraft deities

References