Editing Our Lady of Guadalupe (section)

===Symbolism===
The iconography of the Virgin is fully Catholic:<ref name="McMenGuad2006">{{cite journal |year=2006 |title=Our Lady of Guadalupe and Eucharistic Adoration |journal=Numismatics International Bulletin
|author=McMenamin, M. |volume=41 |issue=5 |pages=91–97}}</ref> Miguel Sánchez, the author of the 1648 tract ''Imagen de la Virgen María'', described her as the [[Woman of the Apocalypse]] from the [[New Testament]]'s [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] 12:1, "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." She is described as a representation of the Immaculate Conception.{{sfn|Brading|2001|p=58}}

<section begin=Alleged corruption in the Catholic Church transclusion/>Virgil Elizondo says the image also had layers of meaning for the [[indigenous people of Mexico]] who associated her image with their [[polytheistic]] deities, which further contributed to her popularity.<ref name="elizondo" >Elizondo, Virgil. ''Guadalupe, Mother of a New Creation.'' Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiancountrynews.com/index.php/news/education-life/6538-a-short-history-of-tonantzin-our-lady-of-guadalupe|title=A short history of Tonantzin, Our Lady of Guadalupe|website=Indian Country News|language=en-gb|access-date=March 4, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043309/https://www.indiancountrynews.com/index.php/news/education-life/6538-a-short-history-of-tonantzin-our-lady-of-guadalupe|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her [[blue-green]] [[Robe|mantle]] was the color reserved for the divine couple [[Ometecuhtli]] and [[Omecihuatl]];<ref>[http://www.utpa.edu/dept/lrgvarchive/virgen.html UTPA.edu], "La Virgen de Guadalupe", accessed November 30, 2006</ref> her [[Belt (clothing)|belt]] is interpreted as a sign of [[pregnancy]]; and a cross-shaped image, symbolizing the cosmos and called ''[[Nahui Ollin|nahui-ollin]],'' is inscribed beneath the image's sash.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mUBk8mPCLOsC&q=nahui-ollin&pg=PT54 ''Tonantzin Guadalupe''], by Joaquín Flores Segura, Editorial Progreso, 1997, {{ISBN|970-641-145-3|978-970-641-145-7}}, pp. 66–77</ref> She was called "mother of maguey",<ref name="taylor">{{Cite book|last=Taylor|first=William B.|title= Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford|year=1979 |isbn=9780804711128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EgJcIJE3amsC&q=Guadalupe}}</ref> the source of the sacred beverage [[pulque]].<ref name="whatis">{{cite web |title= What is Pulque? |url= https://delmaguey.com/pulque/ |website= Del Maguey: Single Village Mezcal |access-date= October 13, 2020 |df= mdy-all |archive-date= October 16, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201016073741/https://delmaguey.com/pulque/ |url-status= dead }}</ref> Pulque was also known as "the milk of the Virgin".<ref name="bushnell">{{Cite journal|last=Bushnell|first=John|title=La Virgen de Guadalupe as Surrogate Mother in San Juan Aztingo|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=60|issue=2|page=261|year=1958|doi=10.1525/aa.1958.60.2.02a00050}}</ref> The rays of light surrounding her are seen to also represent [[Agave americana|maguey]] spines.<ref name="taylor" />