Jade
Jade denotes purity, virtue, balanced cosmic powers, immortality, and good fortune, while Mesoamerican sources emphasize jadeite as a prized greenstone.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Aztec mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Chalchihuitlicue bears Aztec mythology
why
Chalchihuitlicue is the jade-skirted goddess of lakes, rivers and standing water in Central Mexican tradition, consort of the rain god, who presided over a former world that ended in flood.