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Mesoamerican

Xochiquetzal

precious flower, patron of love and craft

earth

Xochiquetzal blooms as the goddess of flowers, love, weaving, and every made and beautiful thing; to dream of her is to be told that pleasure and tenderness are not frivolous, but holy work, and that beauty is a way of keeping faith with the world.

Fragments

Every marigold that opens is a small piece of her, and the dead are said to follow their scent home through the dark on the one night the world remembers them.

She dwells in a paradise of flowering trees where hummingbirds and butterflies gather, and the songs of lovers and artisans rise to her like a sweet and endless incense.

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