Unless the costume be spotted like that of her spouse Tlaloc, with ulli rubber-gum, to represent rain.

This picture of Tlaloc and Chalchihuitlicue is reminiscent of the Japanese myth of Susa-no-o and his sister Ama-terasu, the Sun-goddess, who, desirous of progeny, stood one on either side of a “river” (the Milky Way), dipped jewels into the “river,” crushed them into dust and “blew them away”; gods were born from the dust so breathed upon. See Kojiki, translated by Basil Hill Chamberlain, in supplement to vol. x of Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1882, pp. 47–49. The Mexican picture has probably a similar generative significance.

Hist. Antig. de Mej., tom. i, c. xxviii.

“Chief Eagle.”

Commentary on the Aubin Tonalamatl, p. 56.

The resemblance of this festival to the uei teciulhuitl, the feast of Xilonen, is obvious. (For a fuller description, see Sahagun, bk. ii, c. xxvii.)

Bk. i, c. xiii.

Bk. vi, c. xvii.