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-Goddesses could give birth to no more than their original litters. As her children worked on their plot to murder her, Coalique birthed the fairy war god, Huitzilopochtli.

-Earth’s mother had fallen and became fertilized. All of her children had been torn by the fratricide. Then, they scattered themselves around the universe.

Aztec World Origin

-Coatlique was made up of skulls, snakes, and lacerated hands

-One day, she came across a ball of feathers, and she tucked in her breast.

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She was a perfect monolith

-When went looking for it, it was gone, and she noticed she was pregnant once more.

-totality of intensity and self-content, but her features were square and decapitated

Her offspring didn’t believe her tale. Coalique’s children were ashamed of her, and decided to kill her. Goddesses could give birth to no more than their original litters.

-Coatlique had become pregnant by an obsidian knife. She gave birth to Coyolxauhqui, the moon goddess, and a group of boys, who turned into the stars

With the fire serpent’s help, he killed his siblings out of rage. He removed Coyolxauhqui’s head and threw her body into a gorge. The Indians’ natural cosmos was born of catastrophe. The heavens had crumbled into pieces.

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