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Coatlcue
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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.
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