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Salma Hayek Jiménez was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.
"Coatzacoalcoscomes from a Nahuatl word meaning "site of the Snake" or "where the snake hides."According to the legend, this is where the god Quetzalcoatl made his final journey to the sea in around 999 and he made his promise to return.
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"Mictlāntēcutli (Spanish pronunciation: [miktlaːnteːkutli] (About this soundlisten)) or Mictlantecuhtli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [mik.tɬaːn.ˈteːkʷ.tɬi], meaning "Lord of Mictlan"), in Aztec mythology, is a god of the dead and the king of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), the lowest and northernmost section of the underworld. He is one of the principal gods of the Aztecs and is the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of death and the underworld.The worship of Mictlantecuhtli sometimes involved ritual cannibalism, with human flesh being consumed in and around the temple. Other names given to Mictlantecuhtli include Ixpuztec (“Broken Face”), Nextepehua (“Scatterer of Ashes”), and Tzontemoc (“He Who Lowers His Head”).
Two life-size clay statues of Mictlantecuhtli were found marking the entrances to the House of Eagles to the north of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan.
Mictlantecuhtli was considered 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and was depicted as a blood-spattered skeleton or a person wearing a toothy skull. Although his head was typically a skull, his eye sockets did contain eyeballs. His headdress was shown decorated with owl feathers and paper banners and he wore a necklace ofhuman eyeballs, while his earspools were made fromhuman bones.
He was not the only Aztec god to be depicted in this fashion, as numerous other deities had skulls for heads or else wore clothing or decorations that incorporated bones and skulls. In the Aztec world, skeletal imagery was a symbol of fertility, health and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between life and death. He was often depicted wearing sandals as a symbol of his high rank as Lord of Mictlan. His arms were frequently depicted raised in an aggressive gesture, showing that he was ready to tear apart the dead as they entered his presence. In the Aztec codices, Mictlantecuhtli is often depicted with his skeletal jaw open to receive the stars that descend into him during the daytime.
His wife was Mictecacihuatl, and together they were said to dwell in a windowless house in Mictlan. Mictlantecuhtli was associated with spiders,owls,bats, the 11th hour, and the northern compass direction, known as Mictlampa, the region of death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictlantecuhtli