a diviniity or a sacred or divine force, associated with salt and with rituals relating to water, fertility; "Woman of the Huixtotin" (connected with the Popoloca speakers; the term Huixtotin was also associated with sacrificial victims who wore headpieces with eagle claws)
No iuh qujmauiztiliaia, yn, jxiptla tonacaiotl, yn jtoca, chicome coatl; yoɑ̃ yn jxiptla iztatl, ytoca Vixtocioatl: = In the same manner they paid honor to the image of man’s sustenance, called Chicome coatl; and to the image of the salt {female figure}, named Uixtociuatl. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Tecuilhuitontli was a small festival of the lords, the seventh festival of the year. This festival honored Huixtocihuatl, the supposed older sister of the rain gods (tlaloque). Her reed staff was decorated with paper sprinkled with olli (liquid rubber). The women who made salt danced to honor the goddess over a period of several days, carrying a cord of flowers (xochimecatl) and a garland of iztauhyatl on their heads. The victims that were called Huixtoti (representatives of the goddess) were dressed like and painted the colors of the goddess. Ceremonial sacrifices were made.
Huixtocihuatl (Uixtociuatl) was the name of one of the four women prepared for a year to marry and lie with the ritual representative of the deity Tezcatlipoca (or Titlacauan, or Titlacahuan) in the month of Toxcatl.
Huixtocihuatl = la diosa de la sal; pertenece al grupo de las deidades asociadas con Tláloc; supuesta hermana mayor de los tlaloque; durante las ceremonias dedicadas a ella, los sacerdotes se pintaban con el color azul (asociado con ella)