What is Chantico?
[[Image:Chantico.jpg|thumb|{{center|Aztec goddess Chantico}}]] '''Chantico''' was the [[Aztec]] [[goddess]] of both [[pain]] and [[pleasure]].<ref name=Auset24>Brandi Auset, ''The Goddess Guide: Exploring the Attributes and Correspondences of the Divine Feminine'' (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2009), p. 24</ref> She is also the goddess of the family [[hearth]], the [[home]] and [[volcano]]es. According to Aztec [[Mythology|myths]] she brings wealth and stability to the home.<ref name=Auset24/> Chantico protects the home from [[Theft|thieves]] and losing things.<ref name=Auset24/> She is sometimes shown wearing a [[crown]] of [[cactus]] [[wikt:spike|spikes]] and red [[snake]]s.<ref name=Auset24/> She is the 'Lady of the [[chili pepper]]' and is sometimes shown with one or two pods of red chilies.<ref name=Beyer20>Hermann Beyer, 'The Natural Basis for Some Mexican Gods', ''The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal'', ed. Stephen Denison Peet, Vol. XXXI (Jan–Feb 1909), p. 20</ref> The meaning of her name is 'in the house', meaning she lives in the house.<ref name=Beyer20/> According to one myth she was changed into a [[dog]] and another name for her was '''Quaxolotl'''.<ref>Herman Beyer, 'The Symbolic Meaning of the Dog in Ancient Mexico', ''American Anthropologist'', New Series, Vol. 10, No. 3, July–September, 1908, p. 421</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.chanticoglobal.com/About_Chantico.html ''Chantico, Aztec Goddess of Fire''] * [http://www.godslaidbare.com/pantheons/aztec/chantico.php ''Chantico''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809062844/http://www.godslaidbare.com/pantheons/aztec/chantico.php |date=2018-08-09 }} [[Category:Aztec gods and goddesses]] {{religion-stub}}