Mayahuel is represented as a woman with Agave branches coming out of her body in sign of fertility and a Jade ring piercing her nose.
The Legend says that when the earth first began, there was an evil goddess, named Tzintzimitl, an evil goddess that devoured light, bringing darkness to mother earth. To give a little light to the natives in the form of stars, she asked for human sacrifices in her honor.
Quetzalcoatl, was the God of Redemption, the Feathered Snake God, the benevolent God. Tired from this human sacrifices, went up in the sky searching for the evil goddess to kill her, but he met ther her beautiful grand daughter, Mayahuel. Quetzalcoatl fell in love with her beauty and decided to rescue her from her evil grand mother, taking her back with him on earth.