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Toci
Toci ( "Our grandmother")〔From ''to-'', first person plural possessive, and ''cihtli'', "grandmother" (the absolutive suffix ''-tli'' is dropped). See also Campbell (1997).〕 is a deity figuring prominently in the religion and mythology of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilization of Mesoamerica. In Aztec mythology she is attributed as the "Mother of the Gods" (''Teteo Innan''〔''Lit.'' "gods, their mother". Campbell, ''op. cit.''〕 or ''Teteoinnan''), and associated as a Mother goddess (also called ''Tlalli Iyollo'', "Heart of the Earth").
==Characteristics and associations==
Although considered to be an aged deity, Toci is not always shown with specific markers of great age. Toci is frequently depicted with black markings around the mouth and nose, wearing a headdress with cotton spools (Miller and Taube 1993, p. 170). These are also characteristic motifs for Tlazolteotl, a central Mesoamerican goddess of both purification and filth (''tlazolli'' in Nahuatl), and the two deities are closely identified with one another.
Toci was also associated with healing, and venerated by curers of ailments and midwives. In the 16th century ''Florentine Codex'' compiled by Bernardino de Sahagún Toci is identified with ''temazcalli'' or sweatbaths, in which aspect she is sometimes termed ''Temazcalteci'', or "Grandmother of sweatbaths". Tlazolteotl also has an association with ''temazcalli'' as the "eater of filth", and such bathhouses are likely to have been dedicated to either Tlazolteotl or Toci/Temazcalteci.〔Sections of the Codex Magliabechiano indicate that the god Tezcatlipoca served as tutelary god for ''temazcalli'', however its illustrations also clearly show the face of Tlazolteotl above the doorway; see discussion in Miller and Taube (1993, p.159).〕
Toci also had an identification with war, and had also the epithet "Woman of Discord".
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