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a goddess with associations of flowers, sexual love, and beauty; also called ichpochtli (maiden)
Xochiquetzalpapalotl, tlaçotlanquj in tlaçoiujtica: ioan coztic teucujtlaio, iquetzalquaquauh = The finely wrought butterfly of [the goddess] Xochiquetzal [was made of] precious feathers; and its horns were of gold and quetzal feathers. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Xochiquetzal 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.
The cuetlaxochitl (Euphoria pulcherrima) was a plant associated with the deity Xochiquetzal.