The mother of the Aztec creation story was called "Coatlique",
the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes. She was created in the image of
the unknown, decorated with skulls, snakes, and lacerated hands.
There are no cracks in her body and she is a perfect monolith (a
totality of intensity and self-containment, yet her features
were sqaure and decapitated). Coatlique was first impregnated by
an obsidian knife and gave birth to Coyolxanuhqui, goddess of
the moon, and to a group of male offspring, who became the
stars. Then one day Coatlique found a ball of feathers, which
she tucked into her bosom. Whe she looked for it later, it was
gone, at which time she realized that she was again pregnant.
Her children, the moon and stars did not believe her story.
Ashamed of their mother, they resolved to kill her. A goddess
could only give birth once, to the original litter of divinity
and no more. During the time that they were plotting her demise,
Coatlicue gave birth to the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli.
With the help of a