Aztec earth, fertility and purification goddess of Huastec origin (the Ixcuina/Ixcuinanme complex); patroness of carnal love and of its ritual absolution as the Filth-Eater (Tlaelcuani), honoured at the autumn feast Ochpaniztli. In the codices she is the mother of Centeotl the maize lord — depicted in Codex Borbonicus fol. 13 giving birth to him while wearing flayed skin — a maternity that the sources alternately assign to Xochiquetzal (already the wired primary parent of Centeotl). Authored here to materialize the variant maternal link named in the Centeotl entry. Closely identified with the earth-mother Toci/Teteoinnan; her diagnostic attribute is the unspun-cotton headdress with two spindles.