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Xochiquetzal, Aztec Goddess of Beauty & Fertility
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Title: Xochiquetzal, Aztec Goddess of Beauty & Fertility
Caption: Xochiquetzal, from the Codex Borbonicus. In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal was a goddess associated with concepts of fertility, beauty, and female sexual power, serving as a protector of young mothers and a patroness of pregnancy, childbirth, and the crafts practiced by women such as weaving and embroidery. Xochiquetzal is also representative of human desire, pleasure, and excess, appearing also as patroness of prostitutes and artisans involved in the manufacture of luxury items. The Codex Borbonicus is an Aztec codex written by Aztec priests shortly before or after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Like all pre-Columbian codices, it was originally entirely pictorial in nature, although some Spanish descriptions were later added. There is dispute as to whether the Codex Borbonicus is pre-Columbian, as the calendar pictures all contain room above them for Spanish descriptions.
Personalities: AZTEC
Category: ILLUSTRATION • History: Ancient
Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
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Image size: 2948 × 3712 px | 31.3 MB
Print size: 25.0 × 31.4 cm | 1160.6 × 1461.4 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: 15TH CENTURY • ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ART • ARTFORM: ICON • ARTWORK • AZTEC CIVILIZATION • AZTEC CODEX • AZTEC CODICES • AZTEC EMPIRE • AZTEC RELIGION • AZTEC • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CENTRAL AMERICA • CODEX BORBONICUS • CODEX • CODICES • DEITY • DRAWING • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • GODDESS OF BEAUTY • GODDESS OF FEMALE SEXUAL POWER • GODDESS OF FERTILITY • GODDESS • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: ANCIENT • ICHPUCHTLI • ICON • ICONOGRAPHY • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • IMPORTANT • LEGEND • LEGENDARY • MESOAMERICA • MESOAMERICAN RELIGION • MESOAMERICAN • MYTH • MYTHOLOGICAL • MYTHOLOGY • NAHUAS • NAHUATL • NOTABLE • PATRONESS OF PROSTITUTES • PEOPLE FROM AZTLAN • PICTORIAL CODEX • PICTORIAL CODICES • PRE-COLUMBIAN CODEX • PRE-COLUMBIAN CODICES • PRIMITIVE ART • WELL-KNOWN • WRITTEN BY AZTEC PRIESTS • XOCHIQUETZAL
