Chicomecoatl 14th century 1521 or Seven Serpent, the Aztec goddess of maize, food, fertility, and agricultural abundance. During the annual Huey Tozozotli festival that honored the corn plant, corn on the cob and corn stalks were bundled up and carried by young women to be left at Chicomecoatl's temple. Aztec ( The Aztecs, Mesoamerican culture, Central Mexico 1300 to 1521 (14th-16th Century), Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica , Tenochca, Texcoco, Tlacopan, )

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Human sacrifice played a central role in the ideology of the Aztec Empire.

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