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ID: 901002067
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002067
Record Type: Character/Person

Huixtocihuatl (Aztec deity)

Note: Name means Salt Lady; she is the goddess of salt water, of the salters guild, and of dissolute women.

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

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
........<Aztec iconography> (P)
............<Aztec characters> (P)
................Huixtocihuatl (Aztec deity) (I)
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)
deity of .... salt water
.....(water by property, water (inorganic material), inorganic material, materials by composition, materials (substances), Materials (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Huixtocihuatl (Aztec deity)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

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