Xochiquétzal
Precious flower
What it rules
Beauty, love and the handcrafts.
Why «energy» and not «god»
Because «god» translates badly. The Mexica did not separate the deity from the force it stands for in the way the European word does, and calling them gods imports an idea that is not theirs. «Energy» is not perfect either, but it does not carry that freight. It is a decision of this site, and it is declared as one.
The full entry is in Spanish, and here is why
What you have read above is this project's own summary of Xochiquétzal. The full entry — the part that rests on the sixteenth-century sources — has not been translated, and that is a decision rather than an omission.
We chose not to touch the primary text. Those sections quote Sahagún, Durán and the codices in their own words, often in sixteenth-century Castilian. A quotation carried across stops being a quotation: it loses the register, the ambiguity and the exact wording someone might want to check against a facsimile.
In Spanish the entry carries:
- El nombre
- Patrona de las artes y los partos
- Una energía con muchos vínculos
- De dónde viene su imagen
Read the full entry in the original Spanish → Nahuatl names and terms are identical in both versions.
The name
She was also called Ichpochtli — «the young woman», «the girl». She stood for youth, sensuality and everything creative in existence: patron of craftsmen, weavers, spinners and featherworkers.
She shares faculties with the Cihuateteo, and the beloved in the songs is identified with her.
The sources also name her Ixnextli or Tlazolteotl — three names for what other entries in this app treat separately.
How to cite this page
Alma Mexica, «Xochiquétzal», The energies. Revised 2026-09-17. https://almamexica.org/en/energy/xochiquetzal/