In Aztec mythology, Teteoinnan (also known as Tozi and Toci) was the mother of the gods, the personification of the power of nature, and the goddess of healing and sweat baths.
Teteoinnan is the same but opposite goddess as Coatlicue. While Coatlicue was the destructive feminine force, Teteoinnan was the creative feminine force.
Along these travels, every step of the way, was the goddess: the B.C.-era fertility figures and Teteoinnan of the original plant, the unnamed earth goddess of the Mississippian moundbuilders in the U.S., maize goddess Chicomecoatl of the natives conquered by the Spanish, and the Native American Corn Mother or Corn Woman.
She was the vulva and she was the dark, the dark humus of the soil, the dark sleep of the night, the dark belly of the mother, all darkness where life is nurtured and released.
Teteoinnan was the goddess of death and rebirth, like the teosinte seed buried in the dark earth and sprouted, like the human body buried into the dark earth and reborn.
Teteoinnan was so grand as goddesses go that she was almost beyond comprehension, beyond imagining.
She was the vulva and she was the dark, the dark humus of the soil, the dark sleep of the night, the dark belly of the mother, all darkness where life is nurtured and released.
Teteoinnan was the goddess of death and rebirth, like the teosinte seed buried in the dark earth and sprouted, like the human body buried into the dark earth and reborn.
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