Mayahuel
Mayahuel is the female deity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, particularly within Aztec cultures. As the personification of the maguey plant, she is part of a complex of interrelated maternal and fertility goddesses in Aztec religion. She is connected with notions of fecundity and nourishment.
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When
- First attested
- 900 CE
- Attested period
- 900 – 1600
- Historical notes
- Attested in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, ending with Spanish conquest in 1521.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mācuīltōchtli, Ixtlilton, Texcatzonatl, Colhuatzincatl, Centzon Tōtōchtin, Mictlantecuhtli, Itztlacoliuhqui
- consort of
- Patecatl, Tepoztecatl
- parent of
- Centzon Tōtōchtin
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The depictions of Mayahuel in the Codex Borgia and the Codex Borbonicus show the deity perched upon a maguey plant. The deity's positioning in both illustrations, as well as the same blue pigment used to depict her body and the body of the maguey plant”
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“Their parents are Patecatl and Mayahuel and they may be brothers of Ixtlilton.”
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“With Mayahuel, he was the father of the Centzon Totochtin.”
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“According to Aztec myth, Tepoztēcatl was one of the Centzon Tōtōchtin, the four hundred children of Mayahuel, the goddess of the maguey plant, and Patecatl, the god that discovered the fermentation process. As a deity of pulque, Tepoztēcatl was associated with fertility cults and Tlāloc.”
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