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==Sin== ===Forgiveness of sin=== According to Aztec belief, it was Tlazōlteōtl who inspired vicious desires and who likewise forgave and cleaned away sin.<ref name="Soustelle199"/> She was also thought to cause disease, especially [[sexually transmitted disease|STDs]]. It was said that Tlazōlteōtl and her companions would afflict people with disease if they indulged themselves in forbidden love.<ref name="Soustelle193"/> The uncleanliness was considered both on a physical and moral level and could be cured by steam bath, a rite of purification, or calling upon the Tlazoltēteoh, the deities of love and desires.<ref name="Soustelle193">{{harvp|Soustelle|1961|p=193}}</ref> ===Purification=== For the Aztecs, there were two main deities thought to preside over purification: [[Tezcatlipoca]], because he was thought to be invisible and omnipresent, therefore seeing everything; and Tlazōlteōtl, the deity of lechery and unlawful love.<ref name="Soustelle199">{{harvp|Soustelle|1961|p= 199}}</ref> It is said that when a man confessed before Tlazōlteōtl everything was revealed. Purification with Tlazōlteōtl would be done through a priest. One could only receive the "mercy" once in their life, which is why the practice was most common among the elderly.<ref>{{harvp|de Sahagun|1982|p=11}}</ref> The priest (''tlapouhqui'') would be consulted by the penitent and would consult the 260-day ritual calendar ([[tōnalpōhualli]]) to determine the best day and time for the purification to take place. On that day, he would listen to the sins confessed and then render judgment and penance, ranging from fasts to presentation of offerings and ritual song and dance, depending on the nature and the severity of the sin.<ref>{{harvp|de Sahagun|1982|pp=10-11}}</ref> ===Dirt eating=== {{lang|nci|Tlazōlteōtl|italic=no}} was called "Deity of Dirt" ({{lang|nci|Tlazōlteōtl}}) and "Eater of Ordure" ({{lang|nci|Tlahēlcuāni}}, 'she who eats dirt [sin]') with her dual nature of deity of dirt and also of [[ritual purification|purification]]. Sins were symbolized by dirt. Her [[coprophagia|dirt-eating]] symbolized the ingestion of the sin and in doing so purified it.<ref name="Sullivan1982p15">{{harvp|Sullivan|1982|p=15 }}</ref><ref name="Patrisia2012p98"/> She was depicted with [[ochre]]-colored symbols of divine excrement around her mouth and nose.<ref name="Patrisia2012p98"/> In the [[Classical Nahuatl|Aztec language]] the word for sacred, {{wikt-lang|nci|tzin}}, comes from {{lang|nci|tzintli}}, the buttocks, and religious rituals include offerings of "liquid gold" (urine) and [[gold]] (Nahuatl teocuitlatl "divine excrement", which Klein jocularly translated to English as "holy shit").<ref name="Patrisia2012p98"/><ref name="Klein1993p20">{{cite journal |last=Klein |first=Cecelia F. |year=1993 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-14538980/teocuitlatl-divine-excrement-significance.html |title=Teocuitlatl, 'Divine Excrement': The Significance of 'Holy Shit' in Ancient Mexico |journal=[[Art Journal (College Art Association journal)|Art Journal]] |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=20–27 }}</ref> Through this process, she helped create harmony in communities.<ref name="Patrisia2012p98">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikLJLdhpYKoC&pg=PA98 |title=Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing |last=Gonzales |first=Patrisia |year=2012 |pages=98–99|isbn=9780816599714 |quote=Klein reinterprets the ochre color symbols found around the mouth and nose of some Tlazolteotl depictions, as well as painted to represent matter emanating from the buttocks — from connoting 'dirt' to 'divine excrement.' She notes that {{lang|nci|tlazolli}} — interpreted by many academics as Tlazolteotl's root word — is not only excrement or something old or used. Similarly the word for 'venerable' is {{lang|nci|tzin}}, which comes from {{lang|nci|tzintli}}, the buttocks. Urine as 'liquid gold' and offerings of excrement are examples of 'divine excrement' or, as Klein writes playfully, 'Holy Shit'. }}</ref>
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