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My favorite snake deity is Coatlicue, whose epithets include “our mother”: > Coatlicue is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a neckl
by GloomyBoots 3y ago
My favorite snake deity is Coatlicue, whose epithets include “our mother”:
> Coatlicue is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands, and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned with claws and her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid from pregnancy. Her face is formed by two facing serpents, which represent blood spurting from her neck after she was decapitated.
Not mentioned: other representations of her with an intact, skeletal face.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cōātlīcue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cōātlīcue
- mahrain 3y agoFor me it would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
- robga 3y agoI can't go past Nehebkau, not least because of the proto imagery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehebkau#/media/File:Nehebkau_(God).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehebkau#/media/File:Nehebkau_...
- civilitty 3y agoHave you seen the dinosaur version? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
- clarkevans 3y agoWhat's fun about the Coatlicue statute, currently located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, is that the earth deity is on the bottom. This statue is so large that one wouldn't be able to "tip" it over to look. Yet, there it is... a carving on the underside where no one can see it. Of course, the museum has a cast of the image adjacent where modern viewers can look at it. More about this kind of fun stuff is in Claudia Brittenham's book, Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica (disclaimer: she's my lovey wife).
- j-kent 3y agoI learned about this god from Adventure Time, of all places. https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Life https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Life