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  • proper noun mythology In Aztec mythology, the goddess who gave birth to the moon and stars.

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Classical Nahuatl

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Examples

  • So also did the four hundred Chichimecs, and these set about to burn one of the five goddesses, by name Coatlicue, the Serpent Skirted, because it was discovered that she was with child, though yet unmarried.

    American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • And near the bow was a hideous depiction of snaky Coatlicue, the mother-goddess.

    Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Gate of Worlds 1 - Robert Silverberg Blue Tyson 2010

  • And near the bow was a hideous depiction of snaky Coatlicue, the mother-goddess.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • The leading figure wears a snake skirt and has female breasts, probably the prototype of the Aztec Cihuacoatl ( "Woman-Serpent") and possibly the forerunner to Coatlicue ( "Serpent Skirt"), the Deity of Duality represented by the Aztec statue in the Mexico City museum.

    Primary sources of Maya history - part five 2008

  • All goddesses of the earth-mother complex had some connection to fertility and death — for example, those in the myths surrounding Coatlicue, the great mother-goddess who gave birth to the sun, moon, and stars.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Coatlicue thus embodied the dual concept of creation and destruction that the Nahuas saw as present in all life. 4

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • The leading figure wears a snake skirt and has female breasts, probably the prototype of the Aztec Cihuacoatl ( "Woman-Serpent") and possibly the forerunner to Coatlicue ( "Serpent Skirt"), the Deity of Duality represented by the Aztec statue in the Mexico City museum.

    Primary sources of Maya history - part five 2008

  • Subtitled: “Talk Show Interviews with Coatlicue the Aztec Goddess, Malinche the Maligned, the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona: The Wailer,” the fierce foursome is a celebration of the dark goddesses — Mexican figures that have been imprisoned inside the symbols of (respectively) destruction, betrayal, saintliness and errant motherhood.

    Agua Santa: Holy Water : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Huitzilopochtli, the sun god of the Mexicas, had been born of a feather placed in the womb of the lady Coatlicue, his mother, and because of this he was represented with the most beautiful feathers.

    MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007

  • They performed the dance of the serpent before the Great Temple as an invocation to the spirit of Coatlicue, mother of Huitzilopochtli.

    MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007

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