Notes.

The goddess Chicomecoatl, “seven guests,” was the deity who presided over food and drink. Hence in the first verse she is referred to as Chicomolotl, “seven ears of corn,” and is spoken of as a guide to Tlalocan, or the home of abundance.

Father Duran, who gives a long chapter on this goddess (Historia, cap. 92), translates her name “serpent of seven heads,” and adds that she was also called Chalciucihuatl, “Lady of the Emerald,” and Xilonen, “goddess of the tender ears of maize.” Every kind of seed and vegetable which served for food was under her guardianship, and hence her festival, held about the middle of September, was particularly solemn. Her statue represented her as a girl of about twelve years old.

Totochtin, the Rabbits, Gods of the Drunkards. Hymn XVII.