Coatlicue
MythologyAztec
RoleMother of gods
About Coatlicue
Mother of Huitzilopochtli and the celestial host. When her daughter Coyolxauhqui led siblings to kill her, the war god sprang fully armed from the womb and dismembered his sister. Her famous statue wears a skirt of serpents and a necklace of hearts and skulls, and was buried then rediscovered in 1790.
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