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Encyclopedia > Huixtocihuatl

In Aztec mythology, Huixtocihuatl (or Uixtochihuatl, Uixtociuatl) was a fertility goddess who presided over salt and salt water. Her younger brother was Tlaloc, and the rain gods are her sisters. Some sources place her as a wife of Tezcatlipoca.


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"Huixtocihuatl was the Aztec god of war," Blair explained, unconsciously falling back into a familiar teaching mode.
He was worshipped because the people believed that he controlled the sun and rain and, basically, their fate.
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