... Mayahuel. When they found the tree that was holding both Quetzalcoatl and Mayahuel, the tree split into two, dropping the branches to the ground. Recognizing the branch that hid Mayahuel, the grandmother proceeded to shred it, giving ...
At Her Back (Cuando La Virgen Me Dio La Espalda) is an autobiographical book about the resilience of the human spirit. The story is told through the eyes of Fanny as a child.
... Mayahuel and her role in tequila's story of origin. Most distilleries sport elaborate murals or striking statues of Mayahuel, and company tours often begin in front of these artistic renderings. Much as with the jimador, the promotion ...
... Mayahuel , the lovely young goddess of maguey , who lives in the sky with her fearsome tzitzimitl grandmother . Finding the virgin Mayahuel asleep , Quet- zalcoatl wakes her and persuades the goddess to descend with him to earth . There ...
... Mayahuel. The Aztec goddess of fertility, childbirth, good fortune, and especially the alcoholic pulque drink made from the agave plant, which is also known as the maguey plant. Mayahuel was called the “woman with four hundred breasts ...
... Mayahuel , goddess of the maguey whose fibers , like cotton , were spun into thread and woven into cloth , and whose fermented juice , pulque , the Huastecs were reputed to drink to excess . In the Codex Borbonicus representation ( Fig ...
... MAYAHUEL strokes OHTONQUI'S face. MAYAHUEL: Is this you Nezahualcoyotl, hiding in an Aztec's clothes? MACUETZIN: This is my son, not yours, Mayahuel. But you're right, he's the same age as your prince was when he disappeared. MAYAHUEL ...
... Mayahuel is the central Mexican goddess of the maguey plant and personifies fecundity. In the sacred calendar, she is patron of the day tochtli (rabbit) and of the trecena that started with 1 malinalli (grass). The young Mayahuel was ...
... Mayahuel faces a secondary figure , which is likely a human attendant of Mayahuel because the figure lacks the supernatural associations of gods in the rest of the manuscript , such as distinctive face and skin paint . The figure wears ...
... Mayahuel, spiritually vital. Mayahuel started life (well, afterlife) as the goddess of fertility and embroiled herself in an unmitigated disaster of an affair when she paired off with the god of medicine Patecatl. Having dropped some ...