Tonacacihuatl

Tonacacihuatl is the half of the first principle that the sources are clearest about being female, in a cosmology that insists the beginning of things was a couple and not a single figure. The Mexica put her at the top of the world and then, in practice, addressed almost every prayer to somebody else — which is the usual fate of a high god who has finished the work.

Domains

• creation

Relations

• spouse: Tonacatecuhtli
• counterpart of: Ometeotl

Sources

• Reference treatments of Tonacacihuatl, Omecihuatl and Omeyocan.