Chalchihuitlicue, whose night-robe of jewel-stars whirls above, Lady of the Maintenance. She is the goddess of lakes, rivers and seas, the goddess of horizontal waters.
The Aztec water goddess, a personification of youthful beauty and ardor, Chalchihuitlicue was represented as a river from which grew a prickly pear tree laden with fruit, symbolizing the human heart.
Aztec goddess of rivers, lakes, streams, and other freshwaters. Chalchiutlicue means She Who Wears a Jade Skirt; she was also called Matlalcueye (She Who Wears a Green Skirt). Wife (in some myths, sister) of the rain god Tlaloc, in Aztec cosmology she was the fourth of the previous suns; in her reign, maize (corn) was first used. Like other water deities, she was often associated with serpents.