Chalchiuhtlicue

Chalchiuhtlicue
Chalchiuhtlicue
Goddess of water, mistress of lakes, rivers and seas
	Chalchiutlicue in the Codex Borbonicus
Other names	Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue, Matlalcueye
Abode	Tlalocan; Ilhuicatl-Meztli (1st Heaven); Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl (Gulf of Mexico);
Gender	Female
Region	Mesoamerica
Ethnic group	Aztec, Tlaxcaltec (Nahua)
Personal information
Parents	Created by the Tezcatlipocas (Codex Zumarraga)
Siblings	None
Consort	Tlaloc
Children	With Tlaloc: the Tlaloque (Nappatecuhtli, Tomiyauhtecuhtli, Opochtli, Yauhtli) and Huixtocihuatl; With Tonatiuh: Centzon Mimixcoa (Leyenda de los Soles);
Equivalents
Greek equivalent	Poseidon

Chalchiuhtlicue [t͡ʃaːɬt͡ʃiwˈt͡ɬikʷeː] (from chālchihuitl [t͡ʃaːɬˈt͡ʃiwit͡ɬ] "jade" and cuēitl [kʷeːit͡ɬ] "skirt") (also spelled Chalciuhtlicue, Chalchiuhcueye, or Chalcihuitlicue) ("She of the Jade Skirt") is an Aztec deity of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism.^{[citation needed]} Chalchiuhtlicue is associated with fertility, and she is the patroness of childbirth.^[4] Chalchiuhtlicue was highly revered in Aztec culture at the time of the Spanish conquest, and she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico.^[5] Chalchiuhtlicue belongs to a larger group of Aztec rain gods,^[6] and she is closely related to another Aztec water god called Chalchiuhtlatonal.^[7]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 567, 568, 569, 570, 571. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^ Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 206, 207. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^ Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. p. 351. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.
^ Read & González 2002: 140–142
^ According to the 16th-century Dominican friar and historian Diego Durán. "Universally revered" is quoted from his Book of the Gods and Rites, written 1574-1576 and published in English translation (Durán 1971: 261), as cited by Read & González 2002: 141.
^ Sahagún, Bernardino de (1970). Florentine Codex: General history of the things of New Spain: Book I, the Gods. Anderson, Arthur J. O., Dibble, Charles E. (2nd, rev ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research. p. 6. ISBN 9780874800005. OCLC 877854386.
^ Miller & Taube 1993: 60; Taube 1993: 32–35.

[NahoaMythology-1] Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 567, 568, 569, 570, 571. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.

[2] Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 206, 207. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.

[3] Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. p. 351. ISBN 970-07-3149-9.

[4] Read & González 2002: 140–142

[5] According to the 16th-century Dominican friar and historian Diego Durán. "Universally revered" is quoted from his Book of the Gods and Rites, written 1574-1576 and published in English translation (Durán 1971: 261), as cited by Read & González 2002: 141.

[:2-6] Sahagún, Bernardino de (1970). Florentine Codex: General history of the things of New Spain: Book I, the Gods. Anderson, Arthur J. O., Dibble, Charles E. (2nd, rev ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research. p. 6. ISBN 9780874800005. OCLC 877854386.

[7] Miller & Taube 1993: 60; Taube 1993: 32–35.

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