MAYAUEL = “SHE OF THE MAGUEY -PLANT”
- Minor Names: Ce Quauhtli = “One Eagle.” Cipactonal = “Cipactli Sun.”
- Calendar Place: Ruler of the eighth day, tochtli; of the eighth week, ce malinalli.
- Symbols: The agave-plant; the octli jug or vase.
- Compass Direction: The lower region, or south.
- Relationship: One of the octli-gods and the Tzitzimimê; wife of Patecatl.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
Codex Borgia.—Sheet 12: She is painted yellow, the women’s colour, and is seen issuing from an agave-plant. In sheet 16 she has the general aspect of Tlazolteotl, and her hair is bound up with a band of unspun cotton, a plug of which also hangs from her ear. About the mouth she is painted with black rubber, and as a nasal ornament wears the golden crescent. Her face is white, and her tippet and skirt are painted in the semblance of water and both garments have a fringe of snail-shells. She suckles a fish. Sheet 68: In this place she is represented as ruler of the eighth week. She has a two-coloured face-painting, the upper half yellow, and the lower green or blue.