Chalchihuitlicue: Beautiful, Dangerous, Changeable And Unpredictable Water Goddess In Aztec Mythology

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - From the beginning of human history, water has played a significant role in people's belief systems. Long ago, people realized they couldn't live without it.

They also recognized the profound influence of water on nature as a whole. Even our ancestors acknowledged water as one of the four fundamental elements, which, together with earth, fire, and air, constituted their understanding of the world's order. Water was personified in almost every culture and was worshiped as a powerful deity. People turned to their powerful deities during times of both scarcity and abundance of water, during droughts and floods alike.

Like in many cultures worldwide, the inhabitants of what we today call Mesoamerica also worshiped the deities closely associated with water. These divine figures had once a most important position in the pantheon of gods.

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