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Vol. II · Polytheism
Chalchiuhtlicue
Aztec goddess of lakes and rivers
the jade-skirted woman whose sacred waters carry all life, her jade bead necklace the symbol of precious water in the valley
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.
