Malinalxochitl
Aztec/Mexica · deity · chichimec migration · Recorded classification
Malinalxochitl is the sister the Mexica left asleep. The migration story has her travelling with them and frightening them — she could turn people's eyes, send scorpions, make a river bend — until Huitzilopochtli told the people to move on while she slept. She woke, found herself abandoned with her followers, and founded Malinalco. The story matters because her son grew up on it: Copil came looking for Huitzilopochtli, and what happened to him is the reason Tenochtitlan is where it is.
Children
Domains
- sorcery
Relations
- mother of: CopilMother of Copil. The registry carries Huitzilopochtli, her brother, and carried neither her nor the nephew who came after him.Reference treatment of Malinalxochitl as the mother of Copil, who went to avenge her against Huitzilopochtli. (secondary)
Sources
- Malinalxochitl is the sorceress sister of Huitzilopochtli, abandoned during the Mexica migration at his order, founder of Malinalco and mother of Copil.: Reference treatments of Malinalxochitl, the Mexica migration and Copil. (secondary)