Tonantzin

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Tonantzin is an important pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican mother goddess figure, often linked to earth, fertility, and later syncretized with the veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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Label Occurrences
Tonantzin canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican goddess
earth goddess
fertility goddess
mother goddess
associatedWith agriculture
earth
fertility
life cycles
maize
motherhood
mountains
rebirth and renewal
sacred sites
cosmologicalRole nurturing aspect of the cosmos
provider of sustenance
culturalRole mother of the gods
protective mother figure
symbol of the earth
documentedIn Florentine Codex
hasGender female
hasNameLanguage Nahuatl
hasNameMeaning Our Revered Mother
hasTitle Mother of the People
Revered Mother
influenced Mexican popular Catholicism
indigenous Christian devotions in Mexico
linkedTo Marian devotion in Mexico
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Virgin Mary
mentionedBy Bernardino de Sahagún
surface form: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún
relatedConcept Mexican Marianism
religious syncretism in New Spain
religiousTradition Aztec mythology
surface form: Aztec religion

Nahua religion
symbolOf continuity between pre-Hispanic and Catholic devotions
indigenous identity in Mexico
syncretizedAs Our Lady of Guadalupe
timePeriod Post-Conquest colonial era (through syncretism)
Pre-Columbian era
veneratedBy Mexica
surface form: Aztecs

Nahua
surface form: Nahua peoples
veneratedIn Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
worshipCenter Tepeyac Hill
surface form: Tepeyac hill

Valley of Mexico
worshipPractices offerings of flowers
pilgrimage to Tepeyac
rituals for agricultural fertility

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