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	Coatlicue
		Coatlicue became pregnant when she stuffed a ball of feathers -- that had fallen from the sky -- in her bosom.
		Coatlicue represented the type of the devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave.
		Coatlicue was a serpent goddess, depicted wearing a skirt of snakes.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/coatlicue.html (112 words)

	Coatlicue
		Coatlicue, the earth goddess of Aztec mythology, was the mother of the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the Aztec gods and goddesses.
		Her name means "serpent skirt." Coatlicue was the source of all life on earth and took the dead back again into her body.
		She wears a garment of human skin and a necklace of hands and hearts, with a single skull in the center, suggesting that Coatlicue consumed everything that died.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Ca-Cr/Coatlicue.html (160 words)

	Aztec Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan (also transcribed Teteo Inan) ("The Mother of Gods"), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war.
		Coatlicue keeps on her chest the hands, hearts and skulls of her children so they can be purified in their mother's chest.
		Coatlicue's fetus, Huitzilopochtli, sprang from her womb in full war armour and killed Coyolxauhqui, along with many of the brothers and sisters.
	www.crystalinks.com /aztecgods.html (5094 words)

	chalchiutlicue - Cynthia
		Coatlicue was een afschrikwekkende, bloeddorstige, wrede godin aan wie veel werd geofferd.
		Coatlicue vertoont grote overeenkomst met Medusa en de gorgonen en met de Indiase Kali.
		Coatlicue vond haar gouden hoofd en plaatste het op een eervolle plaats aan de hemel, zodat Coyolxauqui nooit kon worden vergeten.
	www.nissaba.nl /godinnen/beschrch.shtml (4405 words)

	Coatlicue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word "Coatlicue" is Nahuatl for "the one with the skirt of serpents".
		The god Huitzilopochtli afterward emerged from Coatlicue's womb fully grown and girded for battle and killed many of his brothers and sisters, including decapitating Coyolxauhqui and throwing her head into the sky to become the Moon.
		A massive sculpture known as the Coatlicue Stone was discovered by the astronomer Antonio de León y Gama in August of 1790 after an urban redevelopment program uncovered artifacts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coatlicue (491 words)

	Coatlicue
		Coatlicue, whose name means "Serpent Skirt," was the Earth goddess of life and death in the Aztec mythology.
		Coatlicue was a goddess thirsty of human sacrifices.
		Coatlicue gave birth to Huitzilopochtli after a ball of feathers fell into the temple where she was sweeping and touched her.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/coatlicue_earth.html (203 words)

	Coatlicue Summary
		COATLICUE ("serpent skirt") was one of an array of Aztec earth-mother goddesses, the Teteoinnan, who represented the notion of maternal fertility associated with the earth.
		Coatlicue's monumental stone image, excavated in 1790 in the heart of Mexico City, is one of the finest and most monstrous achievements of Mesoamerican religious art.
		When Coatlicue became frightened, a voice from her womb comforted her, saying, "Do not worry, I know what must be done." When the warriors arrived at Coatepec, Coatlicue gave birth to Huitzilopochtli, fully grown and dressed as a warrior.
	www.bookrags.com /Coatlicue (845 words)

	CHALCHIHUITLCUE Lady Precious Gr
		Coatlicue is shown with a skirt of serpents and a necklace made of human hearts and hands.
		COATLICUE may be shown with a skull or and infant between her navel and genitals, symbolizing the ultimate power that generates, produces and consuems all life in the world.
		Coatlicue's lower part then rose to form the heavens and her upper part descended to form the earth.
	www.carnaval.com /dead/aztec_gods.htm (2938 words)

	Chicano Park / Murals / Coatlicue Mural
		Coatlicue, the Aztec Goddess of the Earth, is presented in Chicano Park, located within greater Aztlan, the homeland of the Aztecs.
		Coatlicue translates to "She of the Serpent Skirt." As portrayed by Schnorr and Yamagata, the serpents of Coatlicue's skirt are writhing within the lower panel (Fig.
		Coatlicue becomes a symbol of Mexico in the art of the modern Mexican painters of the early twentieth century and of Chicano artists from the 1970s.
	www.chicanoparksandiego.com /murals/coatlicue.html (718 words)

	Mandalas
		Coatlicue, the serpent lady, was the Aztec earth goddess and was the mother of the Aztec god of war Huitzilopochtli.
		It is said that Coatlicue was impregnated by the ball of feathers.
		Coatlicue would have been killed, but at the very moment of threat Huitzilopochtli emerged from her womb, fully armed to protect his mother.
	www.humboldt.edu /~storage/mlm5/mlm5_complete/Birth/b_image10.html (203 words)

	South of the Border, Down Mexico Way: The Aztecs
		Please!: Coatlicue was depicted as a woman with a skirt of snakes and a necklace of hearts torn from her victims.
		The earth mother of the Aztecs, Coatlicue ("skirt of snakes,") is depicted in a fearsome way, wearing a necklace of human hearts and hands, and a skirt of snakes as her name suggests.
		The story goes that Coatlicue was impregnated by an obsidian knife and gave birth to Coyolxauhqui, goddess of the moon, and to 400 sons, who became the stars of the southern sky.
	www.livescience.com /history/top10_intelligent_designs-6.html (211 words)

	Coatlicue (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coatlicue is the earth mother goddess in the faith of the Aztecs.
		Despite such a fearsome exterior, and her penchant for feeding on the corpses that lay in the ground, which was her in the abstract, she was a compassionate deity, giving grains new life from the corpses she devoured.
		Coatlicue was also believed to have given birth to the first man as a virgin.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /scottandrewh/coatlicue.html (873 words)

	FAMSI - John Pohl's Mesoamerica - The Aztecs pg. 3
		One day as Coatlicue was attending to her chores she gathered up a mysterious ball of feathers and placed them in the sash of her belt.
		When Coatlicue heard what her children were plotting she was frightened.
		Partly concealing her bare breasts is a necklace of human hands and hearts with a human skull pendant.
	www.famsi.org /research/pohl/pohl_aztec3.html (864 words)

	From Llorona to Gritona: Coatlicue In Feminist Tales by Viramontes and Cisneros - 1 - Helena Maria Viramontes, Sandra ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to Anzaldua, "Coatlicue states which disrupt the smooth flow (complacency) of life are exactly what propel the soul to do its work: make soul, increase consciousness of itself" (46).
		A psychic and emotional process foregrounding conflict and struggle instead of easy resolutions and compliance to social oppression, the Coatlicue state encourages Anzaldua to delve into the depths of her consciousness and acknowledge the negative forces affecting her life, among them racism, homophobia, poverty, and misogyny.
		Coatlicue brings suffering to the forefront of consciousness, providing a clearer vision as to whom or what to confront.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_24/ai_59211507 (766 words)

	The Unofficial Coatlicue Biography
		The goddess of the earth from the Aztec pantheon, Coatlicue is not kindly disposed towards humanity, which is unsurprising considering that pollution is slowly poisoning her.
		Coatlicue herself is the mother of at least one son, Huitzilopocthli, but is possibly also parent to his brothers Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl.
		Coatlicue is as much a reptile as she is human.
	www.dcuguide.com /who.php?name=coatlicue (423 words)

	In the Beginning for the Aztec People
		Coatlicue, the Aztec goddess of earth and fire, was also the mother of the gods and mother of the stars of the southern sky.
		She represented the type of the devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave.
		Huitzilopochtli was represented as a hummingbird, or with the feathers of a hummingbird on his head and his left leg, with a fl face and holding a snake, and a mirror.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC041056/aztec_beginnings.htm (236 words)

	Coatlicue - Wikipedia en espaÃ±ol (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Coatlicue es una divinidad azteca, madre de Huitzilopochtli.
		Coatlicue era una diosa sedienta de sacrificios humanos.
		Coatlicue diÃ³ a luz a Huitzilopochtli luego de que una bola de plumas cayÃ³ en el templo donde estaba barriendo y le tocÃ³ el pecho.
	www.brujula.net /wiki/Coatlicue (215 words)

	Goddess ~~ She of Many Names ~~ Coatlicue -
		Coatlicue is a goddess of the Aztec indians.
		She was worshipped as the earth mother and was in charge of life and death.
		Aztec legend says Coatlicue became pregnant when a ball of feathers touched her while she was sweeping the temple.
	www.angelfire.com /ks/AWISE1/coatlicue.html (130 words)

	A Collage of Citations » Anzaldúa’s Coatlicue State
		Anzaldúa was three years old the first time she was visited by Coatlicue, when she realized there was something “not normal” about her, and that she felts she had a secret sin, “la seña, the mark of the Beast,” that she had to hide (64-65).
		She is the monster that swallowed all living beings and the stars, she is the monster that swallows the sun each afternoon and gives the sun light each morning.] Coatlicue is a rupture in our everyday world.
		I feel as though there is something wrong with me as a thinker and as a reader that won’t let me access fully what she is getting at (especially when I feel that I understood the previous parts of her book so well).
	oregonstate.edu /~farism/blog/?p=178 (806 words)

	Coatlicue
		In Aztec mythology, Coatlicue ("skirt of serpents') was the goddess of fire and fertility, mother of the southern stars.
		She was impregnated by a ball of feathers.
		As a virgin, she gave birth to Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Coatlicue.html (58 words)

	Coatlique
		There Coatlicue gathered white feathers to adorn her breasts; becoming pregnant while remaining a virgin, she gave birth to the savior-god Quetzalcoatl.
		Her most famous images show her as the ruler of life and its end, garlanded with hearts and hands, wearing a skirt of swinging serpents, hung with skulls, vested in a flayed human skin.
		Coatlicue, honored with spring's earliest flowers, was also rightly attired in claws and snakes, for to the ancient Mexicans the goddess was both Tlaltecuhtli, the ugly earth toad, and Tonantzin, the mother redeemer.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/coatlique.html (273 words)

	Zihrena Gallery of Mexican Art and Culture
		Aztec Earth Goddess of life and death, Coatlicue was mother of the Sun God Huichilapochtli, to whom she gave birth after a ball of feathers fell and touched her breast in a temple that she was sweeping.
		Aztec Mythology declares that Huichilapochtli was born from Coatlicue fully clothed and armed, wearing huaraches (leather sandals) and carrying a shield.
		Coatlicue wears a skirt of serpents round her waist and a string of sacrificial hearts around her throat.
	www.zihrena.com /ixchelm/coatlicue.htm (100 words)

	THE EARTH MOTHER
		Coatlicue, She who Wears the Serpent Skirt, is a unique figure, even in Mesoamerica.
		The Aztecs recognize her both as a serpentine form of the Earth Mother, and more importantly as the mother of their patron deity Huitzilopochtli (.WAV), the war god who brought the Aztecs to the island in Lake Texcoco from which they would build their empire.
		Coatlicue had unintentionally conceived Huitzilopochtli by tucking a blue feather in her skirt - this new conception would offend her 400 children, who would conspire to kill their mother.
	members.aol.com /emdelcamp/mother.htm (688 words)

	South American Realm of the Forgotten Goddesses
		Coatlicue was seen as an insatiable deity feasting on the corpses of men.
		The rattlesnake was a symbol of poverty and the earth sheltered the rattlesnake in holes.
		Her name means "Golden Bells." She was the daughter of the earth goddess, Coatlicue and the sister of the sun god, Huitzilopochtli.
	inanna.virtualave.net /southamerican.html (2723 words)

	The Questia Online Library
		From Llorona to Gritona: (1) Coatlicue in Feminist Tales by Viramontes and Cisneros
		According to Anzaldua, "Coatlicue states which disrupt the smooth flow (complacency) of life are exactly what propel the soul to do its work: make soul, increase consciousness of itself" (46).
		She prompts Anzaldua to assert herself fully in the face of external psychic, physical or emotional violence so she will emerge completa or whole: instead of victimhood, Coatlicue encourages resistance against external forces that diminish a sense of self.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001869295&er=deny (521 words)

	3308.01.proj1.comp.html
		Coatlicue was one of the five moon goddesses worshiped by the Aztecs.
		Or, according to another view, she was a single earth goddess with five aspects: the four directions and their center.
		If this description seems too kind to fit the terrifying vision of the goddess revealed in her statue, it is because Coatlicue, as goddess of life, is actually a vast cosmic process.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/3308/3308.01.proj1.comp.html (2079 words)

	COATLICUE - Ancient Mythology
		The miraculous conception, however, angered her other offspring, who attacked her, but her new son, Huitzilopochtli emerged fully armed from her womb, and fought them off, killing many.
		Coatlicue was the earth serpent goddess, and was very horrible in aspect, her skirt being woven of writhing snakes, her necklace of human hearts and hands supported a skull pendant.
		Her hands and feet were clawed, her breasts were flabby, and her diet consisted of human corpses.
	www.mysticgames.com /mythology/COATLICUE.htm (158 words)

	One Giant Leap: The Legacy Of Apollo 11
		Angry and out to settle the issue, Coyolxauhqui spoke to her 400 sisters and brothers (who were stars in the sky) and organised an effort to murder their mother.
		But Coatlicue was innocent, she had no reason to be ashamed.
		But Coatlicue felt deeply sorrowed by the death of so many of her children.
	www.exn.ca /apollo/Moon (1062 words)

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