Note 3 — Chapter V · DEITIES OF THE EARTH AND GROWTH PROPER

In none of the representations alluded to was Tlazolteotl pictured with the broom characteristic of her and of her feast-day, ochpanitztli (“when they sweep the ways”). This was made from hard, stiff, pointed grass, which was cut with sickles in the mountain-forests of Popocatepetl.3 It was bound with a coloured leather strap, and the paper which held it together was flecked with the V-shaped cotton symbol.