"This ambiguity has prompted some scholars to argue that Tlaltecuhtli may have possessed a dual gender like several other Mesoamerican primordial deities.In Bernardino Sahagún's Florentine Codex, for example, Tlaltecuhtli is invoked as "in tonan in tota" —"our mother, our father"—and the deity is described as both a god and a goddess.