In the Aztec religion, Itzpapalotl (literally: “obsidian butterfly” in Nahuatl) was the leader of the Tzitzimimeh and a goddess of agriculture and war. She was the ruler of Tamoanchan, the underworld paradise where humanity was created and where those who died as infants went, and the mother of Mixcoatl, the god of the stars.In Caananite mythology, Ishat and Zabib were the goddesses of fire and flame and servants of Yam-Nahar, the chaos god of the sea. Both of them were destroyed by Anat, the virgin goddess of war, on behalf of her brother, Hadad. It has been suggested that Ishat and Zabib personified the heat of summers and droughts and were thus natural enemies of Hadad, a god of storms and fertility.
