Chalchiuhtlicue: She of the Jade Skirt

Mexico City is sinking into the bed of a lake the Aztecs worshipped as a goddess. The Aztecs called her Chalchiuhtlicue, She of the Jade Skirt, and she held every kind of living water, down to the lake their capital was built inside. They baptized their newborns in her name, washing each child while the midwife spoke to the goddess directly, centuries before Spanish priests arrived and were distur...