Tlazolteotl

The golden figure was modeled on a purportedly Aztec greenstone carving called Tlazolteotl, considered to be a masterpiece by the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington, D.C. In my research into the object's acquisition history, I discovered that a Chinese dealer in Paris sold the figure in 1883 to a famous French mineralogist, Augustin Damour.

Legend of the Crystal Skulls 2008

Tlazolteotl: "Filth Deity"; goddess of dust and filth, and of persons "tainted" with polluting filth, like adulterers and promiscuous women.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Filth and illness were so closely linked that Tlazolteotl, the goddess of filth was also the patron goddess of healers.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Confession was the province of the male/female deity pair, Tezcatlipoca and Tlazolteotl, the gods most associated with sexual violations.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Together with Tlazolteotl, he had the power to cause immorality, punish immoral people, and remove impurities from them as well. tícitl (plural, titici): Náhuatl word for healer, or someone skilled in the art of curing.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Conservatory (1988) is one of a number of tributes to Frida Kahlo, who is placed in an imaginary setting among the decorative background materials, together with Tlazolteotl, an important and complex earth-mother goddess from the Aztec pantheon.

Miriam Schapiro. 2009

In my opinion, the Tlazolteotl idol, like the crystal skulls, is a nineteenth-century fake.

Legend of the Crystal Skulls 2008

Malinalli expected that in the same manner, Tlazolteotl, the “devourer of filth,” would eat up her sins, or what she thought of as sins, which were nothing more than nonconformity, misfortune, a series of contrary feelings.

MALINCHE Laura Esquivel 2007

Tlazolteotl, who on earth would go see a Lieberman biopic, even WITH Kevin Spacey?

Firedoglake » Feel the Joe-Nertia! 2006

Tonan has satisfied her passion, the goddess Tlazolteotl has satisfied her passion.

Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868