In many countries two grain-spirits, mother and daughter, appear in the agricultural pantheon. In Breton custom the mother-sheaf—a figure made out of the last sheaf—bears within it a lesser bundle, which is regarded as the unborn daughter; and in Prussia, Malaysia, Scotland, and Greece, this double personification of the corn was or is in vogue.
CINTEOTL = “MAIZE-GOD”
- Territory: Totonac; Aztec; Xochimilco.
- Minor Names: Ce Xochitl = “One Flower” (date). Chicomoltotzin = “Seven Ears.”
- Relationship: Son of Tlazolteotl; husband of Xochiquetzal.
- Symbol: The god’s head with maize headdress (as in Bologna tonalamatl).
- Festivals: Uei tozoztli; ochpaniztli.
- Compass Directions: North; West.
- Calendar Place: Fourth of the Nine Lords of the Night. Seventh of the Thirteen Lords of the Day. (Codex Borbonicus, sheet 20.)
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
Codex Borgia.—Sheet 52: In this place Cinteotl is figured as a male deity of yellow colour and with a peculiar black, angular, longitudinal band on the face and bearing a load of maize-ears on his back. In one hand he carries the rain-staff and in the other the throwing-stick. Sheet 14: In this illustration he is clearly