Chalchiuhtlikue - “She who wears the green skirt.”

The wife (or sometimes sister) of Tlaloc, Chalchiuhtlikue was the Aztec goddess of running water and all water elements. Like other water deities, Chalchiuhtlikue was often associated with snakes. She was most often depicted wearing a green or blue skirt with a trickle of water flowing out of it.

Chalchiuhtlikue was also the patroness of childbirth and the protector of newborns. In Aztec mythology, she played a key role in the Mexican version of the Flood myth. However, despite the cataclysmic flood, she turned people into fish and thus saved them.

The celebration of Chalchiuhtlikue usually included rituals such as fasting, feasting, bloodletting, and cruel human sacrifices, sometimes even of women and children.