Tlaltecuhtli

creator destroyer goddess of the creation story

According to the Histoyre du Mechique, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl agree that they can't continue with their re-creation of the world with her around, so they decide to destroy her. Transforming into two great serpents, one snake seizes her left hand and right foot while the other seizes her right hand and left foot. They then rip the monster apart - her upper body becoming the earth and her lower half is thrown into the sky to create the heavens.

This act of violence angers the other gods, and in order to console the earth, it is decided that all plants needed for human life will be created out of her body. The trees, flowers, & herbs come from her hair. The grasses and smaller flowers come form her skin. The mountain ridges and valleys are made from her nose. Her eyes become the source of wells, springs and small caves, while her mouth becomes the source for great rivers and caverns. It is said she still screams for blood during the night & can only be soothed with sacrificial flesh and blood.

She was the "eater of sins" to whom the Aztecs confessed their transgressions. Also known as Toci (grandmother), Teteo Innan (mother of the gods), Ixcuina (Four-face) Eater of filth, devourer of sins, goddess of witches and witchcraft. Mother of the corn god

Tlazolteotl has power over all forms of unclean behavior, usually sexual. Confessing sins to Tlazolteotl, one is cleansed. The goddess has four forms or aspects, corresponding to the phases of the moon: a young and carefree temptress, the lover of Quetzalcoatl; the Goddess of gambling and uncertainty; the Great Priestess who consumes and destroys the sins of mankind; and frightful old crone, persecutor and destroyer of youth.

Her husband was water god Tlaloc until Tezcatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror, kidnapped her and brought her to the Nine Heavens where he made her the Goddess of Love. At one point, she was also married to Centeotl and her twin was Xochipilli

She was followed by a retinue consisting of birds and butterflies. Worshippers wore animal and flower masks at a festival, held in her honor every eight years.

 In some illustrations she is shown holding the head of Tlazolteotl, the goddess of the witches, between her legs. Others she is depicted as wearing a blue tunic woven with flowers a garland of  green feathers and red and yellow flowers and golden earplugs and pendants.

She had a beautiful garden and was an unparalleled beauty herself. Anyone who touched a flower from her garden became a passionate lover. The Aztecs, who had a passionate love of flowers, associated them with poetry, art, symbolism. music, sport, love and sexuality.

Marigolds are still offered to her today and to the dead whom she protects on Dia de los Muertos Day of the Dead. Other sacred symbols are spiders signifying the art of weaving and the interrelatedness of all life and thorns used to pierce the ears and other parts of the body during penance.

She is associated with same-sex desire both male and female as well as transgenderism and has become an important patron of gay rights in Latin America. 

TONANTZIN (to-Nant-zin)  "Our Venerable Mother,"

TONANTZIN (to-Nant-zin) "Our Venerable Mother," a mother  goddess often described as earth goddess but  actually broader as understood as synonymous with the feminine aspect.

The grounds of the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de Guadelupe in Mexico City -- also called La Villa de Guadelupe -- is the site of the largest pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary in the world, an estimated 12 million people each year.

http://www.awakenedwoman.com/tonantzin.htm
Story of a pilgrimage to the church/shrine by an American

Tonantzin-Guadalupe
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It is believed that our Lady of Guadalupe used the Aztec Nahuatl word of coatlaxopeuh which is pronounced "quatlasupe" and sounds remarkably like the Spanish word Guadalupe. Coa meaning serpent, tla being the noun ending which can be interpreted as "the", while xopeuh means to crush or stamp out. So Our Lady must have called herself the one "who crushes the serpent."

The tilma itself is made from the fibers of the maguey plant and does not last more than 25-40 years, yet after nearly 500 years, the original tilma can still be found in perfect condition in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Tepeyac.  Scientific studies have determined that the image is not painted.  The colors used to make the image cannot be identified by science.

The stars may be a sign of the supernatural character of the image. Research published in 1983 by Fr. Mario rojas Sanchez and  Dr. Juan Homero Hernandez Guadalupe Illescas of Mexico claims the stars are in the position of the winer solistice the dawn before December 12, 2003

In her manifestation as saint, Guadalupe appeared on the hill of Tepeyac, the site of a destroyed temple to the Aztec Earth Goddess.  She did not chose a Spaniard, nor did she chose a clergyman to declare herself.  She chose to show herself to a recently converted indigenous man and spoke to him in the ancient Nahuatl language.  The name, Guadalupe, is not a Nahuatl name.

The Feast of Coatlaxopeuh
 The Underground of Our Lady of Guadalupe
 Nuestra Senora la Virgen de Guadalupe

I am black but beautiful
Song of Songs
usfca.edu/darkmadonna/