COATLICUE

PERSONAL DATA Occupation: Aztec goddess of earth, creation, destruction and motherhood Marital Status: Unknown Known Relatives: Huitzilopocthli (son) Group Affiliation: Aztec gods Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown Eyes: Black Hair: None First Appearance: Secrets of Haunted House #4 (October-November 1975)

"There issss no water in my veinsss. There isss only poison, now. It fallssss from the sssky. It ssseepss through the ssscales of my heart... From theirsss factories. Their power plants. From the fields where they grow theirsss food." - Coatlicue

Quote taken from Mythos: The Final Tour #2 (January 1997)

  The goddess of the earth from the Aztec pantheon, Coatlicue is not kindly disposed towards humanity, which is unsurprising considering that pollution is slowly poisoning her.

HISTORY

  Coatlicue ('serpent skirt') is the Aztec goddess of earth. She is seen as both creator and destroyer, just as the earth itself creates life and then buries the remains of its creations. As giver of life, she is also seen as a goddess of motherhood. Coatlicue herself is the mother of at least one son, Huitzilopocthli, but is possibly also parent to his brothers Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl.

  The years have not been kind to Coatlicue, with her worshippers becoming fewer and fewer and man's pollution slowly poisoning the Earth which she embodies. In recent times, she has had one or two noteworthy run-ins with humanity. First when worshippers called upon her and other gods to create a new face for the wanted criminal Carl Talbot, but the gods double-crossed him by giving him the face of yet another wanted criminal. [Secrets of Haunted House #4] A few years later, she aided Pain, a renegade servant of Desire of the Endless, in his scheme to end time and all of creation. [Mythos: The Final Tour #1-3 (December 1996-February 1997)]

POWERS AND WEAPONS

  As an earth goddess, Coatlicue has the power to create earthquakes. Her connection to the Earth is however proving to be her undoing – similarly to the earth spirit Gaea/Maya, the slow poisoning of the Earth is having an adverse physical effect on Coatlicue.

  Coatlicue is as much a reptile as she is human. Her body is humanoid in shape, but Coatlicue has two snake heads and a 'skirt' composed of living snakes, hence her name 'snake skirt'.