Mesoamerican Culture, History, and Religion

Shield Flowers





Give up?

They’re sunflowers!








3 responses

  1. Xuchilpaba

    That’s why i used to have the screen name of Chimalxochitl. Plus sunflowers have always been one of my fave flowers.

    it’s weird I noticed that there are a lot of sexual connections with flowers in Aztec lore and literature. Likewise, a lot of the dirty words are similar and a lot use the “xochi” part. Like Xochihua is the polite Aztec term for a homosexual. I know, before you say it, and I will answer yes I am a pervert.

    November 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM

  2. cehualli

    Hehe, small world, eh?

    Suppose I’m not too surprised to hear that the Aztecs used the word flower in a sexual context a lot. That one seems to be universal the world over, especially in poetry.

    This does make me wonder a bit then if Xochiquetzal and Xochipilli’s names are intended to have something of a double entendre…

    Weird, WordPress recognized Xochipilli, but not Xochiquetzal. Ooo-kayyy…

    November 28, 2008 at 5:24 AM

  3. Xuchilpaba

    Yeah they are. Have you ever heard about the story of Xochiquetzal and Quetzalcoatl? Quetzalcoatl masturbates and his semen turns into a bat. It bites Xochiquetzal on her private area and the bat then sends the piece of flesh to the gods. The gods make flowers out of it, and it smells terrible. So the bat goes back for a second piece in the same spot on Xochiquetzal. This time the bat sends the flesh piece to Mictlantecuhtli and his wife, and from it they make flowers that smell good.

    I’ve never found this story online. But it was in one of my more coffee table books about the Aztecs. later Shock, and someone else talked about it on Black & Red.

    November 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM

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