Another derivation of the name is from _tlalli_, and _onoc_, being, to be, hence, "resident on the earth." This does not seem appropriate.] His wife or sister, Chalchihuitlicue, She of the Emerald Skirts, was goddess of flowing streams, brooks, lakes and rivers.

Her name, probably, has reference to their limpid waters.[1] It is derived from _chalchihuitl_, a species of jade or precious green stone, very highly esteemed by the natives of Mexico and Central America, and worked by them into ornaments and talismans, often elaborately engraved and inscribed with symbols, by an art now altogether lost.[2] According to one myth, Quetzalcoatl's mother took the name of _chalchiuitl_ "when she ascended to heaven;"[3] by another he was engendered by such a sacred stone;[4] and by all he was designated as the discoverer of the art of cutting and polishing them, and the patron deity of workers in this branch.[5] [Footnote 1: From _chalchihuitl_, jade, and _cueitl_, skirt or petticoat, with the possessive prefix, _i_, her.] [Footnote 2: See E.G.Squier, _Observations on a Collection of Chalchihuitls from Central America_, New York, 1869, and Heinrich Fischer, _Nephrit und Jadeit nach ihrer Urgeschichtlichen und Ethnographischen Bedeutung_, Stuttgart, 1880, for a full discussion of the subject.] [Footnote 3: _Codex Telleriano-Remensis_, Pt.

ii, Lam.

ii.] [Footnote 4: See above, chapter iii, Sec.3] [Footnote 5: Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib.

vi, cap.