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show the deity perched upon a maguey plant. The deity's positioning in both illustrations, as well as the same blue pigment used to depict her body and the body of the maguey plant on Page 8 of the Codex
Borbonicus, give the sense that she and the plant are one. Furthermore, the Codex Borbonicus
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Mayahuel as holding what looks like rope, presumably spun from the maguey plant fibers. Rope was only one of the many products extracted from the maguey plant. Products extracted from the maguey plant were used extensively across highlands and southeastern
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432:(3rd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. pp. 120, 178.
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468:. Pulque is derived from a fermentation of the sweet liquid
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186:Origins from the maguey plant
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351:Otilia Meza (1981).
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298:(on page 58 recto).
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1627:Codex Ríos
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