Tonantzin

Serpent Woman occupied a position of absolute authority within the Mexica pantheon as the goddess of fertility, agriculture, childbirth, and warfare.

She was closely conflated with other primal mother entities, including Coatlicue, Serpent Skirt, Tonantzin, Our Revered Mother, and Yaocuatl, Enemy Woman.

Serpent Woman embodied a profound, terrifying duality.

On one hand, she held a hoe and an ear of corn, representing agricultural life and sustenance.

Valeria says it's a place associated with Ternansin,

I think it's important to say that Tonantzin is not a goddess, it's not a deity.

It is a quality that you can associate to different female deities in the Aztec pantheon, let's say.

It is associated with the earth, with fertility, but it's not one deity.

And so I was already a danzante through the church.

And we would come out in December to honor Tonantzin or La Virgen de Guadalupe.

And when I went to the Cerbolia class here, And I was, I mean, my mind was blown in the information that was shown to me and was taught to me.

And that was the first sweat lodge that I attended, the Mascal.