Cōātlīcue
c. 1300 CE – 1521 CEattested
Tenochtitlan
- Mesoamerican
Mother of the war god, wearing a skirt of woven snakes and a necklace of hands and hearts. The colossal statue dug up in Mexico City in 1790 was reburied twice because people kept leaving offerings at it.
Known for
- the skirt of serpents
- mother of Huitzilopochtli
- a statue reburied for being too effective
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.