Traci Ardren's article in the journal Antiquity, volume 80, 2006, is peer-reviewed academic scholarship. Its strength is that it traces in detail how the familiar composite image of Ix Chel, moon, tides, weaving and the female life cycle together, was assembled and popularized in the modern era rather than inherited whole from pre-conquest sources. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single article: it argues a specific revisionist thesis, which is influential but not the only scholarly voice on the goddess's iconography.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: peer reviewed academic scholarship in an established archaeology journal, arguing a specific revisionist thesis that is influential though not the only scholarly voice on the subject. NotesArgues that the familiar composite Ix Chel, moon, tides, weaving, the whole female life cycle, is a modern assemblage rather than a pre-conquest deity, and traces how it was built and popularised. Published in Antiquity volume 80.
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AuthorTraci Ardren
PublisherAntiquity
Publication Year2006
Source TypeArticle
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Deities, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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