handful_ofdust

Yes! I even finally figured out who she should be: Ixchel, the Lady of Ropes (by way of Michtantechuatl and Coyotlaxqhui, plus a little bit of Xipe Totec). Which I think works, because let's face it, it's an almost-dead cosmology in which everybody's starting to sort of blend together into archetype soup; I'm also going to work from my theory that most Mezo-American gods began as sacrificial victims themselves, since that was the whole received philosophy behind why you should be willing to let yourself be sacrified in the first place.