TYPE: Primordial deity
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION:In the most widely accepted Aztec cosmogony, this is the self-created, eternal, female principle who combines with Tonacatecuhtli to create all life, transferring souls from heaven to the mortal womb. It exists in the highest, thirteenth heaven and once engendered the sun god Tezcatlipoca, from whom all other deities in the pantheon stemmed. One of the group classed as the Omeotl complex. Also Omecihuatl.