Eclipses, the Aztec believed, threatened pregnancy. The Tzitzimitl—astral deities visible when the ... There they would remain, until the gods sent them back to be born of another mother ...
Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...
So it's not at all surprising that the name Tlazolteotl literally means, in the Aztec language, 'filth goddess'. She was a figure of fertility, vegetation, and renewal, the ultimate green goddess ...