Chalchui Green Skirt – Chalchiuhtlicue
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Chalchiu Green Skirt is the Chief of the Green Shield Spike Horn Tribe in Tierra de Brea and the estranged sister of Tlali Long Cave. Their father never left a Last Will & Codex, so they did not know how to divide the inheritance. Tlali took the gold mine that Cahlchiu wanted and she took the Greenstone River Bank. The siblings have not spoken to each other since their father died.
Chalchiuhtlicue (“She of the Jade Skirt”) is an Aztec deity of water, rivers, seas, streams, storms, and baptism. Chalchiuhtlicue is associated with fertility, and she is the patroness of childbirth. Chalchiuhtlicue was highly revered in Aztec culture at the time of the Spanish conquest, and she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico. Chalchiuhtlicue belongs to a larger group of Aztec rain gods, and she is closely related to another Aztec water god called Chalchiuhtlatonal.
Chalchiuitlicue directly translates to “Jade her skirt”; however, her name is most commonly interpreted as “she of the jade skirt.” She was also known as Chalchiuhtlatonac (chalchihu[itl]-tla-tona-c) “She who shines like jade” and Matlalcueye “Possessor of the Blue Skirt” by the Tlaxcalans, an indigenous group who inhabited the republic of Tlaxcala.
Chalchiuhtlicue is pictured by the large image in the upper left
Chalchiuitlicue was the wife or sister of the Aztec god of rain Tlaloc, depending on the text. Tlaloc and Chalchiuitlicue share similar attributes as they are both water deities; however, Chalchiuitlicue was often associated with groundwater, unlike Tlaloc. She was also the mother of the Aztec moon god Tecciztecatl. In other texts, she was the wife of Xiuhtecuhtli, who was a senior deity for the Aztecs.
In Aztec religion, Chalchiuitlicue helps Tlaloc to rule the paradisial kingdom of Tlalocan. Chalchiutlicue brings fertility to crops and is thought to protect women and children.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
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