Matlalcueitl

Matlalcueitl (also Matlalcueyetl or Matlalcueje or “Matlecueye”) (She of the Green/Blue Skirt)(perhaps translating as “jade-skirted”) is a goddess of life-giving rain and of song in Tlaxcalan mythology. They gave her name to a now dormant volcano Matlalcueitl. The Tlaxcaltecah were a separate group of Nahuatl speakers that were subjugated to the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In Aztec Mythology, Matlalcueitl was identified with Chalchiuhtlicue and with her consort, the ancient rain god Tlaloc.

Matlalcueitl, or Matlalcueye, was the second wife of Tláloc, the Aztec god of rain, after Tezcatlipoca had abducted his first wife Xochiquetzal. She was the goddess of rain, Matlalcueye, and, in honour, this name was given to an extinct volcano located between Puebla and Tlaxcala, to the east of the Basin of Mexico; the same volcano was renamed La Malinche during the Spanish colonial period.