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Chantico.

Headword: 
Chantico.
Principal English Translation: 

a female divine force/deity; the name contains chan- (home); also called Cuaxolotl (Xolotl-Head or perhaps Double- or Split-Head), which was a fertility deity; she also overlapped with Xochiquetzal, Cihuacoatl, and other fertility figures (female)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 112.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Chantico in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction
Women, Men, Gender