Coatlicue

This airticle is aboot the goddess. For the statue, see Coatlicue statue.

Coatlicue, kent as Teteoinan an aw (transcribit Teteo Inan an aw), "The Mither o Gods" (Clessical Nahuatl: Cōhuātlīcue [koːwaːˈt͡ɬiːkʷe], Tēteô īnnān), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth tae the muin, starns, an Huitzilopochtli, the god o the sun an war. She is kent as Toci (Tocî, "oor grandmither") an Cihuacoatl (Cihuācōhuātl an aw, "the lady o the serpent"), the patron o weemen who dee in shootin.

Statue o Coatlicue displayed in Naitional Museum o Anthropologie an History in Mexico Ceety

Etymologie

The wird Coatlicue is Nahuatl for "the ane wi the skirt o serpents". The wird for serpent is coātl. "Mither Goddess o the Yird who gives birth tae aw celestial things", "Goddess o Fire an Growthiness", "Goddess o Life, Daith an Rebirth", an "Mither o the Soothren Starns."

Meeths

She is representit as a wumman wearin a skirt o writhin snakes an a necklace made o human herts, haunds, an skulls. Her feet an haunds are adorned wi claws an her breists are depictit as hangin flaccid frae pregnancy. Her face is formit bi twa facin serpents (efter her heid wis cut aff an the bluid spurt fort frae her neck in the form o twa gigantic serpents),^[1] referrin tae the meeth that she wis sacrificit durin the beginnin o the present creation.

Maist Aztec artistic representations o this goddess emphasise her deadly side, acause Yird, as well as luvin mither, is the insatiable monster that consumes iverything that lives. She represents the devourin mither; in her baith the womb an the grave exist.

Accordin tae Aztec legend, she wis ance magically impregnatit bi a baw o feathers that fell on her while she wis sweepin a temple, an subsequently gied birth tae the gods Quetzalcoatl an Xolotl. Her dochter Coyolxauhqui then rallied Coatlicue's fower hunder ither childer thegither an goadit thaim intae attackin an decapitatin their mither. The instant she wis killt, the god Huitzilopochtli suddenly emergit frae her womb fully grown an airmit for battle. He killt mony o his brithers an sisters, includin Coyolxauhqui, whase heid he cut aff an threw intae the sky tae become the muin. In ane variation on this legend, Huitzilopochtli hissel is the bairn conceivit in the baw-o-feathers incident an is born juist in time tae save his mither frae hairm.