Everything about Mayahuel totally explained
Mayahuel is the female divinity associated with the
maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of
pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the
Aztec cultures. As the personification of the maguey plant, Mayahuel was also part of a complex of interrelated maternal and fertility goddesses in
Aztec mythology and is also connected with notions of fecundity and nourishment.
Products extracted from the maguey plant (
Agave spp.) were used extensively across highlands and southeastern
Mesoamerica, with the thorns used in ritual bloodletting ceremonies and fibers extracted from the leaves worked into ropes and cloth. Perhaps the most important maguey product is the alcoholic beverage known as
pulque, used prominently in many public ceremonies and on other ritual occasions. By extension, Mayahuel is often shown in contexts associated with pulque. Although some secondary sources describe her as a "pulque goddess", she remains most strongly associated with the plant as the source, rather than pulque as the end product.
Mayahuel has many breasts to feed her many children, the
Centzon Totochtin (the 400 Rabbits). These are thought to be responsible for causing drunkenness. Mayahuel is the wife of
Patecatl.
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