Ep. 144: Tlazolteotl: Goddess of Filth and Purification
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This week’s subject is Tlazolteotl, the Aztec goddess of filth, lust, and patroness of adulterers. Tlazolteotl is both the disease and the cure, being a goddess of debauchery, but also the one who can purify you from debauchery. We look at the idea of “Holy S**t”, how excrement was viewed as a divine and healing substance, and how this idea compares in other cultures. We also discuss how “filth” ends up being connected with the Feminine, and how this can affect our ideas abuot sex and sensual pleasure.
Informative as always. Apollo comes to mind as in the Iliad he brings a playge but is the patron on healers.
Enjoyed this podcast. Good to hear more of the South American deities. Each of the “filth” deities remind us like Tantra everything is sacred. Thank you again.
Excellent content as always. Thank you for this, as Pluto passed into Aquarius. I appreciate the timing of this immensely. Clearing out old ways of doing things, old beliefs, old patterns, old clothes that no longer fit, changing career paths, all kinds of things.
Yes, that's a good point!
There are some interesting parallels with Hekate as an “Eater for Filth” and a goddess of purification and the earth (amongst many other things, of course). It would be so interesting to cross-examine different systems around the world that conceive of deities (perhaps mostly goddesses?) of filth and purification and such. (Haven’t even gotten all the way through watching just yet, but couldn’t resist putting the thought out there).
Definitely an interesting topic to consider!
Do you have a citation for Hekate being called "Eater For Filth?" Or is that your word choice to refer to the food she was offered?
This is amazing! I have been looking for more savior goddesses! Thanks!
Thank you for posting this. It was a hard listen for me because I have hang ups about excrement. It is true that nature is dirty and that having an attitude of hyper cleanliness is certainly detrimental to life. There is a time and place for excrement, it feeds the soil, is fuel, even glue for the Anglo Saxons when they built their homes. Have a clean and dirty day. :)
Thank you sooo much!
Kind of reminds me of the feared Aghori sect of India...
Hitting the nail on the head it’s all the same god did rent cultures as Thoth said we make gods in our image and they make us
I just got offer to be adulterous with a man and I'm focusing on sexual healing and the perspectives around sexuality. I said to myself I wonder why I am attracted to this video. Purity and sin aren't what they seem as portrayed in mainstream.
Ah, Gnosis of Filth
could you give credit to your sources
I give credit to all the sources within the podcast. I don't generally leave a list in the description. In this one they were Wikipedia, Brittanica, and Cecelia Klein's article "Teocuitlatl, "Divine Excrement" - The Significance of "Holy Shit" in Ancient Mexico". It's available in Art Journal (don't have the specific issue info in front of me) and also on Academia.edu if you are interested in finding it.
his source is consciousness with integrity
So our politicians worship the god of filth and corruption.
remember the parrel of everything you study in this subject, "they"; worship the action of the renewal itself to go so far as to say, they purposely want the filth and corruption because it grants them ownership of those who have fallen into filth and corruption, that way 'they' can sell you the medicine, because 'they' are 'chemists'. to have renewal you must first have decay. you cannot clean a house if the house is without mess because it is already clean. in the case of the politicians though, they simply play a part of the decay because they are "actors", which in turn sets in motion the wheels of renewal. every piece plays a part. Sumerian myth mentions this, If the king if fallen into a state of decay, he would be tested to see if he is still fit to rule, if not fit to rule, then he is thrown out, so the land/kingdom does not rot. which can also be seen in Arthurian legend and the grail quest, the king however is analogous to the land but the king in turn is under oath to mother earth, once "Mother earth" decays if the king does not follow suit, then a new suiter is required. which then links back to "they" because "they" construct the foundations of both the decay and the renewal. remember though...the politicians are not "they"