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CHAPTER V

  • Compass Direction: West.
  • Festivals: Ochpaniztli (“Feast of Brooms”) in the eleventh month.
  • Symbols: A man eating excrement (“Dirt-eater”); a broom.
  • Relationships: Mother of Centeotl; one of the Tzitzimimê.
Broom of Tlazolteotl, the symbol of her festival.

ASPECT AND INSIGNIA

Codex Borgia.—Sheet 74: Here Tlazolteotl is depicted as naked, and accompanied

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