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Visual depiction of Xochiquetzal

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Vol. II · Polytheism · love

Xochiquetzal

Aztec goddess of beauty and craft


crowned with quetzal feathers and flowers, weaving on a backstrap loom, butterflies alighting on her work

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)
Archetype
love

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.