ITZPAPALOTL - Limited Edition of 10 Artwork

Itzpapalotl is a fierce, powerful mother goddess of birth and death. She is a ferocious skeleton warrior who presides over the realm of Tamoanchan, the place where humans were created from blood, and bones stolen from Mictlan, realm of the dead. Itzpapalotl presides over the paradise realm inhabited by women who died in childbirth and stillborn infants. She is a shamanic goddess and a powerful sorceress. • Itzpapalotl is among the Cihuateteo, mortal women who died in childbirth and transformed into fierce crossroads spirits. • She is also classified as a Tzitzimime, a star Demon. Although Itzpapalotl was incorporated into the Aztec pantheon, she was inherited from neighboring Chichimeca and Zapotecs. The Zapotec path of Itzpapalotl is particularly closely associated with bats. (The term clawed butterfly may refer to bats, not moths or butterflies.) She may be the mother of Mixcoatl. Beautiful velvety print on aluminium. 100X50cm.