Xōchipilli
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Xōchipilli is the god of beauty, youth, love, passion, sex, sexuality, fertility, arts, song, music, dance, painting, writing, games, playfulness, nature, vegetation and flowers in Aztec mythology. Hi
Xochipilli as depicted in the Borgia Codex
Xōchiquetzal, left, and Xōchipilli. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Statue of Xōchipilli (National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City)
Xōchipilli, Aztec terracotta (Lombards Museum)
Xōchiquetzal
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In Aztec mythology, Xochiquetzal, also called Ichpochtli, was a goddess associated with fertility, beauty, and love, serving as a protector of young mothers and a patroness of pregnancy, childbirth, a
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…Seven-flower'), but he could also be referred to as Macuilxōchitl ('Five-flower'). He was the patron of the game patolli. He is frequently paired with Xōchiquetzal, who is seen as his female counterpart. Xōchipilli has also been interpreted as the patron of both psychedelie and nature, a role possibly resulting…
Xōchiquetzal as depicted in the Codex Borgia.
Xochiquetzal, from the Codex Rios, 16th century.