Geography/Culture: America, North: Mexico, (Mexico City 19.28n x 99.09w), Aztec.
Description: Goddess of the harm and hunger caused by barren years; She Who destroys the seed in the ground, or shrivels the young plants with frost.
But some say: Goddess of the Maize; Mother of rural plenty; Counsellor in the ways of wisdom; Protectress of the heroine souls of those who die in childbirth; Ruler of the underworld.
{Note: a Mexican folk tale tells of four women grinding corn for a harvest meal. As they about to discard the sooted corn -- corn infected with smut, a black fungus -- Corn-Soot-Woman, appeared to them and promised them that if they would keep the infected corn, all new ears would grow fat and plentiful. Perhaps Corn-Soot-Woman can be identified with Chicomecoatl, Seven-Serpents}.
To Whom Sacred: obsidian-knife; sun-emblazoned shield.
Festival: September 15 -- sacrifice to Chicomecoatl, Seven-Serpents, (Duran BGRAC 227).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also Chalchihuitlicue, She-of-the-Robe-of-Green-Jewels.
• Perhaps also called Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman, below.
• She and Coatlicue, She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt, are joint rulers of the underworld.
• Her protection of women who die in childbirth seems to connect Her to Itzpapalotl, Obsidian-Butterfly.
• Chicomecoatl, Seven-Serpents, may also have been called Omecihuatl, Lady-of-Duality, Who is linked with Ometeotl, {Those-of-Duality}.
• She is identified with Tonacacihuatl, Lady-of-Our-Flesh, Who is also linked with Ometeotl, {Those-of-Duality}.
• See also Xilonen, She-Who-Always-Walked-and-Remained-as-Fresh-and-Tender-as-a-Young-Ear-of-Corn, below.
• Xochiquetsol, Flowery-Plumage, may be an aspect of Chicomecoatl, Seven-Serpents.

Geography/Culture: America, North: Mexico, Aztec.
Description: Matron Goddess of Xochimilco; She Who weeps at cross-roads; She Who is forever famished.
To Whom Sacred: garlands of cempoalxochitl or sempasuchil (orange marigold) ; fire; empty cradle; market; sacrificial obsidian knife; human sacrifice; buns in the form of hands, feet and faces (Her food); the colour white; Cihuateteo (women who die in childbirth); Tlillan ('The Place of Darkness' in which Her image was housed).
Iconography: Images made of stone with huge open mouth and ferocious teeth, hair long and bulky, wears blouse, skirt and mantle -- all white; perhaps always seated.
Festival: of Huey Tecuilhuit, July 18.
Male Associate: brother, Huitzilopochtli.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Since Her brother is Huitzilopochtli She may be a Daughter of Coatlicue, She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt.
• Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman, is also called Ilamatecuhtli, ----, below.
• Perhaps Itzpapalotl, Obsidian-Butterfly, is a form of Her.
• Perhaps Llorona, She-Who-Weeps, (below), is a present day {azov?} form of Her.
• Or perhaps She is Daughter of Omecihuatl, lady-of-Duality, (linked with Ometeotl, {Those-of-Duality}) Who, like Coatlicue, She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt, is said to be the Mother of Huitzilopochtli.
• She is an aspect of Toci, Our-Grand-Mother, Who is linked with Tonantzin, Our-Revered-Mother.
• Xilonen, She-Who-Always-Walked-and-Remained-as-Fresh-and-Tender-as-a-Young-Ear-of-Corn, (below), was the title of the woman Who represented (temporarily incarnated) and was sacrificed to Her.

Geography/Culture: America, North: Mexico, Aztec.
Description: Goddess of death.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman, above.
• Ilamatecuhtli, ----, is an alternate name for Tonantzin, Our-Revered-Mother.

Geography/Culture: America, North: Mexico, Aztec.
Description: She is said to haunt markets, clasping to Her heart an empty cradle, or the body of a child.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps present day folk version of Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman.

Geography/Culture: America, North: Mexico. Aztec. Her worship was adopted from the Huastecs.
Linguistic Note: Xilotl, 'tender corn'.
Description: Ancient earth and fertility Goddess of the young maize-corn.
To Whom Sacred: maize-corn-cob; the silken tassels of ears of maize; ants (Quetzalcoatl is said to have stolen corn from the ants to give to mankind); ? {a word got lost here} (a shawl covering the breast and and back, worn like a triangular overblouse); the colour white (all the clothing of the woman who was sacrificed under this name was white).
Festival: mid-summer, the festival included human sacrifice to Her. {Probably a reference to Huey Tecuilhuit, July 18th, at which season the new maize-corn was ripe. It was a festival in honour of Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman, during which a woman titled Xilonen, She-Who-Always-Walked-and-Remained-as-Fresh-and-Tender-as-a-Young-Ear-of-Corn was sacrificed}.
Male Associates: Cinteotl, god of maize, Her counterpart.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of the woman sacrificed to Cihuacoatl, Snake-Woman, above.