Tōnacācihuātl

deity sky Aztec single tradition · 6

Tōnacācihuātl is one half of the creator couple Ōmeteōtl, along with Tōnacātēcuhtli. She is the mother of Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, Xīpe Tōtec, and Tezcatlipōca.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Documented in Colonial-era manuscripts.

Relationships

syncretized with
Omecihuatl
aspect of
Ōmeteōtl

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Sources

Source passages

“parents being the creator couple of the Ōmeteōtl (Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tōnacācihuātl) while his brothers were Quetzalcōātl ("Precious Serpent" or "Quetzal-Feathered Serpent"), Xīpe Tōtec”

#11686 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Tōnacācihuātl was the Central Mexican form of the creator goddess common to Mesoamerican religions. According to the Codex Ríos, the History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings, the Histoyre du Mechique, and the Florentine Codex, Tōnacācihuātl and her counterpart Tōnacātēcuhtli resided in Ōmeyōcān”

#33430 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Tōnacātēcuhtli and his consort Tōnacācihuātl resided in 'in Tōnacātēuctli īchān' (the mansion of the Lord of Abundance).”

#33705 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat