... Rabbits" (Icentzon totochtin"), the pulque gods, were living on the moon.158 If Durán describes a human sacrifice ... 400 mixcoa). The patron of the Day Rabbit (Tochtli) was mayahuel, the goddess of maguey, the raw material of pulque.
... Mayahuel is the female deity who represents the maguey cactus . Mayahuel was a sleeping maiden , guarded by her ... 400 - breasted image who feeds her chil- dren , the lunar and terrestrial guardians of plenty and the harvest called Centzon ...
... rabbits! PreColumbian peoples used pulque in religious ceremonies for the god Ometotchtli – whose name translates as Two Rabbit. He was just one of the 400 ... Mayahuel, who had 400 breasts which each gave pulque. Another version had Mayahuel ...
... Mayahuel and the 400 Rabbit avatars of the Centzontotochtin. Its castrated heart came to represent the center or quincunx of the sacred geography mapping the fiow of the precious chalchihuatl. The meyolote “agave heart” was symbolized ...
... 400 Rabbits, a few of which were known by their individual names, especially when they were patrons of a community (Brundage 1979, 159; Nicholson 1971, 419; 1991, 165–72). But because Mayahuel was “the primary goddess of maguey ...
... Rabbit and their beers. The 5 Rabbit name comes from Aztec mythology. The Aztec legend tells of 400 rabbits born to Mayahuel, goddess of the maguey plant and fertility, and Pantecatl, god of fermentation. Maguey is a sacred plant from ...
... Mayahuel was said to be have been held captive in the heavens by her jealous grandmother, Tzitzimitl, of the ... 400 breasts with which to feed her children, the Centzon Totochtin (“400 Rabbits”), deities of mirth and drunkenness. SEE ...
... 400 rabbits that circulate around pulque [ production and consumption ] ( 81 ) ... Mayahuel as “ Noble Woman of Eight - in- a - Row " or perhaps “ of the ... Mayahuel serves as the personification of the maguey plant , Tezcatzon is the ...
... Mayahuel, the goddess of the maguey plant (which yields the alcoholic drink pulque), and her husband Patecatl, the god of healing and fermentation, gave birth to 400 (meaning “innumerable” in ancient Aztec) divine children or “rabbit ...
... 400. Breasts". Pronunciation: My-ya-whale Commonly known as the Goddess of Maguey, Mayahuel was the representative of ... rabbits" or ~ 16 ~ AZTEC MYTHOLOGY Mayahuel - "The Woman of Breasts"