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Citlallicue.

Headword: 
Citlallicue.
Principal English Translation: 

"Star-Her Skirt," a deity that is part of the Ometeotl Complex, primordial parents of deities and humans, creation
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

Also: the road to Santiago in heaven (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
citlalicue
Alonso de Molina: 

citlallicue. camino de sanctiago enel cielo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In the Florentine Codex, Book 6, Chapter 37, we see Chalchiuhtli icue and Chalchiuhtlatonac in discussions about newborn babies. And soon after we see another pairing, in the same chapter, to Citlallatonac and Citlalicue. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 37, 202–203.

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