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a corn (maize) goddess; the "hairy one" (so named for the likeness of cornsilk to hair)
"Tender Maize Ear-Doll" -- "She seems to have been essentially just a younger aspect of Chicomecoatl."
"...after a woman had been arrayed as the likeness of the goddess Xilonen, 'she entered at four places' (nauhcampa yn aquja) 'or she entered the sand' (anoço xalaquja). Thus the entering at four places is a ceremony which is equated with entering the sand, i.e., the xalaquia ceremony." (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
The priest in charge of Centeotl was required to administer the herb yauhtli during the festival of Xilonen.
Xilonen 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.