Statue of Huastec goddess
A History of the World in 100 Objects
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Mother Goddesses Are Not the Same Being as Tlassultiokl
We know virtually nothing about the Washtik mother goddess, but we do know that for the conquering Aztecs, she was the same being as their own mother goddess, Tlassultiokl. Mother goddesses on the whole have to help human beings confront this anxiety of death and birth can be mixed up together. In Christianity, that's very, very strong. Augustine said we're born between feces and urine. He was very sort of worried about the animal aspects of actual parturition, human parturition.
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