Mexico: Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses And The Texts Of The Tlacuilos

Mexico: Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses And The Texts Of The Tlacuilos Pete Sigal, 2010 ‘Imagining Cihuacoatl’ examines the conundrum of the multiple identities of the ‘serpent woman’, a Mexica goddess, analysing her relationship with other goddesses in the Nahua pantheon. She and the others were marked in a particular sexualised and gendered manner in the Nahua world. This article argues that Cihuacoatl and the fertility goddesses cannot be conceptualised in a...

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