水神（Chalchiuhtlicue） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	水神（Chalchiuhtlicue）
品名（英）	Water Deity (Chalchiuhtlicue)
入馆年号	1900年，00.5.72
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1400 - 公元 1550
创作地区	墨西哥（Mexico）
分类	石雕（Stone-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 11 5/8 × 宽 7 1/8 × 深 5 1/2 英寸 (29.5 × 18.1 × 14 厘米)
介绍（中）	这尊雕刻精美的雕像属于一大群跪着的女性，她们展示的服装元素表明她们是水神，在阿兹特克人使用的语言纳瓦特尔语中被称为Chalchiuhtlicue（"玉裙之女"）。在阿兹特克宗教中，水神是雨神特拉洛克的妻子，特拉洛克是一个古老的神，在整个中美洲长期受到崇拜。Chalchiuhtlicue象征着用来灌溉田地的泉水、河水和湖水的纯净和珍贵。作为一位生育女神，她描绘了阿兹特克年轻女性生育的理想。水女神服装中最典型的是独特的头饰，由多条粗带组成，可能是棉质的，缠绕在头上，上下两侧有一排排球和两条大流苏。在后面，带子被扭曲成一个突出的结，流苏的末端落在她的直发上。她的服装是一个高贵的女人，穿着一条裙子和三角形的披肩，流苏镶边。这位水女神与阿兹特克玉米女神奇科梅科特尔关系密切，她经常戴着这顶头饰，手里拿着玉米穗。
介绍（英）	The finely carved figure belongs to a sizable group of kneeling females that display costume elements identifying them as water deities called Chalchiuhtlicue ("she of the jade skirt") in Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs. In Aztec religion, the water goddess was the wife of the rain god Tlaloc, an ancient deity that had long been worshipped throughout Mesoamerica. Chalchiuhtlicue symbolized the purity and preciousness of spring, river, and lake water that was used to irrigate the fields. As a fertility goddess, she portrays the Aztec ideal of fertile young womanhood. Most typical of the water goddess costume is the distinctive headdress consisting of multiple thick bands, probably cotton, wound about the head and bordered above and below by rows of balls and two large tassels attached to the sides of the head. In back, the bands are twisted and tied in a prominent knot, the tasseled ends falling over her straight hair. Her clothing is that of a noble woman with a skirt and triangular shoulder cape bordered by a tasseled fringe. The water goddess was closely related to the Aztec corn goddess, Chicomecoatl, who is often also shown wearing this headdress, while holding ears of corn in her hands.