The Atztec goddess of sex and filth. It was said that she would consume a person's sin and filth only once in his or her life. To ask for her favor a second time would result in her devouring the sinner instead.

When designing deities I first study the history of the culture in which they were worshiped; in so doing, I try to see where the people were at the height of their religion, and where that culture is today. Assuming the gods of a culture would be both fashionably and technologically ahead of the times, I look at the current fashion and design of its culture. I then reverse engineer the design, to show where certain trends and styles originated from.

For example: a prominent fashion accessory during many South American festivals is a large circle of feathers worn on a woman's back. I designed Tlazoltéotl to be the inspiration of this fashion. By my logic, the people of these South American regions adopted this look based on the feather laced, large stone circles hovering behind this goddess. Because people couldn't make stones with feathers float behind them, they attempted to emulate their goddess by strapping large rings of feathers to their backs.

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