Goddesses and Women of Mexico
 Coatlicue
 Aztec
Earth Goddess of life and death, Coatlicue was mother of the Sun
God Huichilapochtli, to whom she gave birth after a ball of feathers
fell and touched her breast in a temple that she was sweeping.
Aztec Mythology declares that
Huichilapochtli was born from Coatlicue fully clothed and armed,
wearing huaraches (leather sandals) and carrying a shield.
Coatlicue wears a skirt of
serpents round her waist and a string of sacrificial hearts around
her throat.
Below her breasts are carved
hands flaring out in the cardinal directions
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