XOCHIQUETZAL
The Aztec Goddess of flowers, dancing, games, fertility and pregnant women. When you look at things in that order it would seem she was the Goddess of love... and she was.
She was also the Goddess of beauty, and as the patron of crafts she had a rather bizarre ritual dedicated to her too, where a woman dressed as Xochiquetzal would be flayed alive and a priest wearing her skin would sit at the foot of the temple pretending to weave. But things got a whole lot stranger as craftsmen dressed as Monkeys would then dance around like loons frantically waving the tools of their particular trade in the air.
I couldn’t find much in pop culture for old Xochi, but apparently she has made a brief appearance in the Marvel U…
She’s a keeper!
Onward!
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