Editing Mayahuel (section)

==Description==

=== Origins from the maguey plant ===
[[File:Aguamiel00.jpg|thumb|The making of pulque, as illustrated in the [[Florentine Codex]] (Book 1 Appendix, fo.40)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/view/1/115/|title=General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex — Viewer — World Digital Library|website=www.wdl.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-07}}</ref>]]
Maguey is a flowering plant of the genus ''[[Agave]]'', native to parts of southwestern modern United States and Mexico. The depictions of Mayahuel in the [[Codex Borgia]] and the [[Codex Borbonicus]] show the deity perched upon a maguey plant. The deity's positioning in both illustrations, as well as the same blue pigment used to depict her body and the body of the maguey plant on Page 8 of the Codex Borbonicus, give the sense that she and the plant are one. Furthermore, the Codex Borbonicus displays Mayahuel as holding what looks like rope, presumably spun from the maguey plant fibers. Rope was only one of the many products extracted from the maguey plant. Products extracted from the maguey plant were used extensively across highlands and southeastern [[Mesoamerica]], with the thorns used in ritual bloodletting ceremonies and fibers extracted from the leaves worked into ropes, netting, bags, and cloth.<ref>Miller & Taube (1993, p.108)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Aztecs: Ancient Peoples and Places|last=Townsend|first=Richard F.|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2009|isbn=9780500287910|edition=3rd|location=London|pages=120, 178|oclc = 286447216}}</ref> Yet, perhaps the maguey product most well-known and celebrated by the Aztecs is the alcoholic beverage ''octli'', or later named [[pulque]],<ref>In {{langx|nah|octli}}. Pulque is derived from a fermentation of the sweet liquid [[Plant sap|sap]] extracted from the plant (in {{langx|es|[[aguamiel]]}}, "honey-water"). See Miller & Taube (1993, p.108) and Townsend (2009, p.178).</ref> produced from the fermented sap of the maguey plant and used prominently in many public ceremonies and on other ritual occasions. By extension, Mayahuel is also often shown in contexts associated with pulque. Although some secondary sources describe her as a "pulque goddess," she remains most strongly associated with the plant as the source, rather than pulque as the end product.<ref>Miller & Taube (1993, pp.108,138)</ref>