earth deity

Coatlicue, whose name means “She of the Serpent Skirt,” is the fierce and awe-inspiring mother goddess of the Aztec pantheon. She embodies fertility, motherhood, the earth, and the cyclical power of life and death. Coatlicue is often depicted wearing a skirt of intertwined snakes and a necklace of human hearts, hands, and skulls, a vivid manifestation of the earth’s dual