Tlazolteotl
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In Aztec mythology, Tlazolteotl was an earth, sex, childbirth and a mother goddess. She was referred to as "the eater of filth" because she visited people at the end of their lives who confessed their sins to her; she then ate the person's "filth" (sins).
Her son was Centeotl. She presides over the 13th trecena of the sacred 260-day year.
[edit] Other names
- Ixcuiname
[edit] See also
- An image of Tlazolteotl from the Codex Borbonicus, in Wikimedia Commons.