Chantico

Chantico is the fire in the house, as against Xiuhtecuhtli's fire at the centre of the world, and the distinction mattered: the hearth was not a lesser altar but a different one, with its own goddess and its own offerings. Her myth is unusually domestic too — she eats paprika on fish on a fast day and is turned into a dog for it, which is a punishment with the scale of a household quarrel rather than a cosmic one.

Domains

• fire

Relations

• counterpart of: XiuhtecuhtliThe domestic half of the fire the registry already carried in its state form: Xiuhtecuhtli holds the fire at the centre of the world and Chantico holds the one in the kitchen.Reference treatment of Chantico beside Xiuhtecuhtli, the turquoise lord and god of fire. (secondary)

Sources

• Chantico is the Mexica goddess of the hearth fire and of volcanoes, patron of the lapidaries of Xochimilco, turned into a dog in myth for breaking a fast.: Reference treatments of Chantico, her name and her cult. (secondary)