{"collection":"Paganism & Neopaganism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/ppr/ppr30.htm","path":"pag/ppr/ppr30.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pag/ppr/ppr30.htm","text":"(Mexican)\n(Cihua-coatl, mythic, mother of earth-born people)\nSERPENT Woman, plumed with eagle feathers, with the crest of eagles, comes, beating her drum, from the Place of the Old.\nShe alone, who is our flesh, goddess of the fields and shrubs, is strong to support us.\nOur mother is as twelve eagles, goddess of drums calling the gods, filling the fields.\nShe is our mother--a goddess of war, our mother, a companion from the Home of Ancestors.\nShe comes forth, she appears when war is waged, she protects us in war that we be not destroyed--an example and companion from the Home of the Ancestors.\nShe comes adorned in the ancient manner with the eagle's crest,--in the ancient manner with the eagle's crest!","title":"Pagan Prayers: Hymn To Cihua-coatl (Mexican)","type":"page"}