CHICOMECOATL = “SEVEN SNAKE”
- Area of Worship: Mexico.
- Minor Name: Chicomolotl = “Seven Maize-ears.”
- Relationship: Sister of Tlaloc.
- Symbol: The double maize-ear (commaitl).
- Festivals: Uei tozoztli, the fourth month; ochpaniztli, the eleventh month.
- Calendar Place: Seventh day of the seventh week; the day chicomecoatl. (Sahagun states that all days containing a seven in their name were regarded as auspicious on her account.)
| Chicomecoatl. (From the Sahagun MS.) | Figure of Chicomecoatl. (Uhde Collection, Berlin.) |
Chicomecoatl. (From the Sahagun MS., Laurenziana).
FORMS OF CHICOMECOATL.
ASPECT AND INSIGNIA
Aubin-Goupil Tonalamatl.—Sheet 7: The goddess is depicted as having a red body and facial painting, and wears variegated raiment in which red is the preponderating colour. On her head is a large square headdress, also red in colour and decorated with rosettes at the four corners—such a headdress, indeed, as Tlazolteotl wears at the ochpaniztli festival. She holds in her hand the double maize-ear, which may be regarded as her peculiar and distinctive emblem.
Codex Borbonicus.—In this codex she is seen wearing red paint and the red garment, holding the double maize-ear, and carrying other maize-ears in a receptacle on her back. Seler thinks that her red colour is that of the granular bunch of the young maize-ear which she represents, and that Tlazolteotl or Teteoinnan, who is painted yellow and white, represents the ripe maize-ear.