Coyolxauhqui

Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Key myth

Leader of the attack on Coatlicue. Huitzilopochtli killed and dismembered her; the great disc stone at the Templo Mayor shows her body in pieces.

Where sources differ or caution applies. Reading her as a moon goddess is an interpretation, not a statement in the sources.

Lineage in the sources used: Coatlicue.

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Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Coyolxauhqui: the moon, war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse