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ID: 901002060
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002060
Record Type: Character/Person

Coyolxauhqui (Aztec deity)

Note: Name signifies “face painted with bells.” Bells are shown on her face in various representations. Sister of Huitzilopochtli. Daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl. She is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the southern star gods

Names:
Coyolxauhqui (Aztec deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
........<Aztec iconography> (P)
............<Aztec characters> (P)
................Coyolxauhqui (Aztec deity) (I)
Related Iconography:
child of .... Coatlicue
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, Aztec iconography, Aztec characters, Coatlicue (Aztec deity)) [901002062]
sibling of .... Huitzilopochtli
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Amerindian iconography, Nahua iconography, Nahua characters, Huitzilopochtli (teotl, Nahua deity)) [901001410]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
nationality is .... Aztec (culture or style)
.....(Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles, Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles and periods, Mesoamerican regional styles and periods, Mesoamerican, Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods, Pre-Columbian (American), Americas, The, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
located in .... Aztec Empire
.....(Mexico, North and Central America) (TGN)
symbolic attribute is .... bell (idiophone)
.....(bells and sets of bells, percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied, percussion idiophones, directly struck idiophones, struck idiophones, idiophones, sound devices by acoustical characteristics, sound devices (equipment), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Coyolxauhqui (Aztec deity)
................Pillsbury et al, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts (2017) 302
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) in "Huitzilopochtli," accessed 21 May 2018
................Getty Museum, Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire (2010)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 21 May 2018
................ Source for image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Coyolxauhqui_4095977415_b89d64f008-2.jpg/1200px-Coyolxauhqui_4095977415_b89d64f008-2.jpg
................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

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