In Mexica mythology is the goddess of lakes and watercourses. She is also the patron saint of births and plays an important role in the Aztec baptisms. She was one of the most important female figures linked to liquid in Mesoamerican culture. Chalchiuhtlicue was considered as well the most important protector of coastal navigation in old Mexico. In the myth of the five suns, she illuminated the world in the First Sun, dominated the fourth world, in the Four-Water era. During his reign the sky was water, which fell on the Earth as a great flood to the hands of this goddess and humans were transformed in to fish.