The Goddess Thalli-Yjolta

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Thalli-Yjolta, Beating-Heart-of-Earth.
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[to Whom the fourteenth day of July, day 195, is dedicated]

Geography/Culture: America, North: Aztec.
Description: Goddess of earth-quakes; {continental plates, orgasms and other natural extremes}.
To whom are sacred:{continental plates and their movements}.

Titles, Variants, etc:

Apparently a language variant of: Tlazolteotl, see below.
By the meaning of Her name She seems similar to Toci, (qv Tonantzin), Who is described as 'Heart of the earth', and Who sometimes causes the earth to tremble.

{Note: it may be that Thalli-Yjolta, and Tlazolteotl, are variant transcriptions of the name for the same Goddess, and that this Goddess is an aspect of Toci}

Tlazolteotl, Earth's-Heart.
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Alternate meaning: Dirty-Lady.
Geography/Culture: America, North: Aztec.
Description: Fourfold Goddess of the moon, the earth, lustful pleasures and fertile filth; Eater of filth; Haunter of life's cross-roads; Absolver of sexual guilt; Mother of the sun; Matron of gambling, black-magic and all excesses.
To whom are sacred: cross-roads; tall-hat; broomstick; once in a life-time confession to one of Her priests; the month named ochpaniztli, 'clean-sweep'.
Icon: Tlazolteotl giving birth. Aztec statue of aplite set with garnets. Dumbarton Oaks, Washinton (Robt. Woods Bliss Coll).
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Her four aspects are:
Teicu, Tiacapan, Tlaco and Xocutin.
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Titles, Variants, etc:

She seems connected to Toci, (qv Tonantzin), through Her name, and by Her association with the broom, see {Note} above.
Coatlicue may also have been known as Tlazolteotl.
One of Her four aspects: Teicu, T]EKW, ---- .
One of Her four aspects: Tiacapan, TE0K0P0N, ----.
One of Her four aspects is Tlaco, below.
Perhaps also called Tzinteotl, below.
One of Her four aspects: Xocutin, $4KWTEN, ----.

Source: Funk & Wagnall SDFMC 1115; Grimal LWM 472.

Tlaco, ----.
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Geography/Culture: America, North: Aztec.
Linguistic note: possibly Her name derives from Nahuatl tlacoloa, 'to prepare the land for cultivation'. The tlacololeros is a men's dance (still to be seen) which dramatizes the activites of the agricultural season in seven sequences, and is associated with Toci and Xilonen as agricultural deities.

One of Tlazolteotl four aspects.

Tzinteotl, ----.
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Description: Goddess of origins and procreation.

Perhaps an alternate name for, or perhaps the name is a variant of: Tlazolteotl.

worked on: July 1990; July 1991; May 1995.
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