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' ("star garment"), also and ', was a creator goddess in Aztec mythology.

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goddess
Gender
female
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worshipped by
Aztec mythology
domain of saint or deity
Milky Way
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' ("star garment"), also and ', was a creator goddess in Aztec mythology.

She created the stars with her husband , the Milky Way, Earth, death, and darkness. This pair of gods are sometimes associated with the first pair of humans, Nata and Nena.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Citlalicue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.