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| In Aztec mythology, '''Tlazolteotl''' (also known as '''Ixcuiname''') was an earth, sex, childbirth and a mother goddess. She was referred to as "the eater of filth" because she visited people at the end of their lives who confessed their sins to her; she then ate the person's "filth" (sins).
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| ==Main Belief==
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| '''Tlazolteotl''' was considered responsible for infidelity yet she was the granter of pardon.
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| Aztecs confessed to her in the form of a priest but the ritual was held after penances. The ritual was enabled with a letter of confession, which also released the confessing person to be released from accountability for legal consequences of his behaviour.
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| '''Tlazolteotl''' was the patron of steam baths, known as ''temazcalli'', as well as goddess of renewal. Due to the latter, the Aztecs sacrificed a young man to her every year. The victim was killed, then his skin was used to cover the Goddess-shaped statue.
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| She had a son, Centeotl.
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| '''Tlazolteotl''' presides over the 13th ''trecena'' of the sacred 260 day year.
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| ===Description===
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| *'''Tlazolteotl''' was a young beautiful girl wearing a rubber mask and a crescent-shaped ornament in her nose.
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| *She was also described as having spindles in her hair to show she was the patron of spinners.
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| ===The Sin of the Flesh===
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| Affairs out of marriage were said to spread a stench around those who indulged in them.
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| The smell was named ''tlazolmiquiztli'', meaning “death produced by love”.
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| ==References==
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| *Comte, Fernand - ''The Wordsworth Dictionary of Mythology'', Wordsworth Editions[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1853263370/qid=1151955202/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/002-3264284-7701655?n=283155]
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| {{wikipedia}}
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| [[Category:Aztec mythology]]
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