The sixteenth month of the calendar was dedicated to this god and included a festival in which amaranth-dough statues of him were ceremonially killed with weaving sticks.
The sixteenth month of the calendar was dedicated to this god and included a festival in which amaranth-dough statues of him were ceremonially killed with weaving sticks. Marigolds and their Tagetes relatives were sacred to this god, who was often pictured wearing a crown of heron feathers. A large area known as apan and a cave inhabited by dangerous women are found in the realm of this god, which also contains a boiling spring home to a giant worm. This god responded to incessant prayers that interrupted his grieving by burning away the entire earth,thus ending his term as the third sun. Blue-and-white-painted steps led to this god's temple on the northern side of the Templo Mayor, which he shared with a war god. This god married the jade-skirted Chalchiuhtlicue (chal-chee-WEET-lih- kway) after his first wife Xochiquetzal [(sho- chee-KET-zal) was stolen by Tezcatlipoca. Sacrificed children and those who died by water were governed by, for 10 points, what Aztec rain god?
The sixteenth month of the calendar was dedicated to this god and included a festival in which amaranth-dough statues of him were ceremonially killed with weaving sticks.
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