Chalchiuhtlicue (TR11v)

Chalchiuhtlicue was a patroness of birth and her powers lay close to running waters. In Aztec imagery her skirt was made of jade stones from which water often flowed. She presided over the day sign 5 cóatl (5 snake) and the trecena Ce ácatl (1 reed). In her manifestation of Acuecueyotl she was the ocean goddess. As Ahuic she became the tips of breaking waves.
Tecciztécatl, lunar deity, was the son of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue. Huixtocíhuatl, goddess of salt, was Tlaloc’s daughter."> See Mexicolore for more information about Chalchiuhtlicue and her counterpart, Tlaloc, associated with celestial waters. This same article publishes another portrait of Chalchiuhtlicue from the Codex Tonalamatl of the Pochtecs (Féjervary-Meyer).

Eloise Quiñones Keber (Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 1995, 170) notes that Chalchiuhtlicue's "outstretched hands hold items typical of the domain of women, a spindle with a hanging strip of cotton and a blue batten. According to Thelma Sullivan (1982), "these weaving tools, more commonly associated with the deity Tlazolteotl, were also symbolic of human generation" [i.e. fertility]. Additionally, Quiñones Keber paraphrases the annotations on the manuscript as informing the reader as to the fate of those being carried away in the water below Chalchiuhtlicue, who, whether "born rich or poor" would "lose everything" in death.