TYPE: Minor Fertility Goddess
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: One of the group classed as the Ometochtli complex associated with the maguey plant from which pulque is brewed. She may be depicted seated upon a tortoise besides an agave plant in bloom. According to legend she was abducted by Quetzalcoatl and subsequently dismembered by wild animals. From the fragments grew the first agave plants.