page_title: Great Goddess of Teotihuacan
section_title: Various Interpretations within the Archaeological Community
hierarchical_section_title: Great Goddess of Teotihuacan / Other interpretations / Various Interpretations within the Archaeological Community
caption_attribution_description: English: National Museum of Anthropology - Teotihuacán. Chalchiuhtlicue, godess of horizontal waters, like lakes and rivers. The sculpture comes from the front of the Pyramid of the Moon. Note: Chalchiuhtlicue is an Aztec deity. This sculpture is instead likely to be the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan.&#91;1&#93; Deutsch: National Museum of Anthropology - Teotihuacán. Chalchiuhtlicue, Göttin der horizontalen Gewässer, wie Seen und Flüssen. Die Skulptur stand ursprünglich vor der Sonnenpyramide in Teotihuacán.
context_page_description: The Great Goddess of Teotihuacan is a proposed goddess of the pre-Columbian Teotihuacan civilization, in what is now Mexico.
context_section_description: In a 2006 article in Ancient Mesoamerica, Zoltán Paulinyi argues that the Great Goddess or Spider Woman is "highly speculative" and is a result of fusing up to six unrelated gods and goddesses.
  In "The Olmec Mountain and Tree Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology", Linda Schele states that the primary mural represents "either a Teotihuacan ruler or the Great Goddess".
  In her 2007 book, The Teotihuacan Trinity, Anna Headrick is cautious in identifying the murals as portraits of the Great Goddess, preferring the term "mountain-tree".  Headrick identifies the tree which sprouts from the headdress as the Mesoamerican world tree.
caption: This statue is generally identified as the Great Goddess, and formerly stood near the base of the Pyramid of the Moon.[31]
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