it seems to us, until we recall the resemblance between the ripe maize-cob and the work of the native jewellers.21
It is, however, as the young maize-god—the maize in its tender and half-ripened condition—that he must be chiefly regarded, and that he was looked upon by the ancient Mexicans.
He strongly resembles the Maya god E.
CIUACOATL = “SERPENT WOMAN”
- Area of Worship: Colhuacan and Xochimilco.
- Minor Names: Quilaztli = “Obsidian Plant” (?). Quauhciuatl = “Woman-eagle.” Yaociuatl = “Woman-warrior.” Tonantzin = “Our Mother.”
- Relationship: Mother of Mixcoatl; sister of the Centzon Mimixcoa.
- Symbol: Obsidian knife.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
General.—In Codex Borgia (sheet 60) she appears as one of the two heads, or faces, of Quaxolotl, a female