Centeotl’s Family Tree

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Family

• Piltzintecuhtli(parent),Xochiquetzal(parent)— Consort

  Piltzintecuhtli and Xochiquetzal bore Centeotl, the young maize god who emerged from the earth and from whose body the first cotton, grains, and useful plants sprouted forth.

  ⚠ Florentine Codex and Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas name Piltzintecuhtli and Xochiquetzal as parents, while the Codex Borgia tradition attributes Centeotl's birth to Tlazolteotl.

• Tlazolteotl(parent)

  Tlazolteotl, goddess of filth and purification, is named as Centeotl's mother in the Codex Borgia tradition.

  ⚠ Codex Borgia names Tlazolteotl as Centeotl's mother, while the Florentine Codex and Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas attribute his parentage to Piltzintecuhtli and Xochiquetzal.

Equivalent to

• Hun Hunahpu(Maya)

  Hun Hunahpu and Centeotl are the Maya and Aztec maize deities, cognate figures descending from the Preclassic Mesoamerican Young Maize God tradition whose death-and-rebirth cycle mirrors the agricultural planting-to-harvest sequence.