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Visual depiction of Mayahuel

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sun

Mayahuel

Aztec goddess of the maguey cactus


a four-hundred-breasted deity of the pulque plant, her branches the maguey spines dripping with the sacred intoxicant

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
sun

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.