Last Update: 24 November 2003
Going Home Where Dragons Came From Myths, Tales, and More Legends The Many Dragon Types Chart of All Dragons Herein Contained Sources and Sites for more Amusement


Coatlcue
Return to the American Dragons Page

Region: Aztec, Central America
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature: None
Sources: Circle of the Dragon, Illiana, Malinche's Conquest

  • Duality of Nature and women's fertility
  • Coatlcue is also an avatar of Chihuacoatl and means "Serpent Skirt".
  • She is often depicted with a necklace of severed human hands and hearts and with a skirt of writhing snakes.
  • Her statue, twice buried and thrice exhumed, now resides in the Mexica Room of La Trobe University in Melbourne.
  • Sometimes shown with 2 dragon heads and with or without claws

Was to give birth to a great warrior when the rest of her children planned to murder them both. But she held strong and when the warrior was born, he defeated his siblings.

back to the top