168:(Tlaltecuhtli or Coatlicue), and, immediately, the Sun ordered the 400 Mimixcoa; the Sun, Tonatiuh, gives them arrows and says "Here it is with what they will serve me to drink, with what they will feed, and a shield, and the precious arrows cast in quetzal feathers, in heron-rowing feathers, in feathers of zacuam, in tlauhquechol feathers, and in xiuhtototl feathers; and also, she, the Earth (Tlaltecuhtli or Coatlicue), who is your mother", but the Centzon Mimixcoa did not do their duty; instead, they get drunk on tzihuactli wine - a small maguey and have sex with women, and immediately, the Sun also orders the five who were born last, immediately gives them the maguey arrow and gives them the divine shield. The five Mimixcoa climb a mesquite tree where the 400 discover them, and they exclaim: "Who are these who are such as us?", and then the five hide in specific places: Cuauhtlicoauh takes shelter in a tree, Mixcoatl on the ground, Tlotepe in the mount, Apantecuhtli in the water, and Cuitlachcihuatl in a court of the Tlachtli ball-court. Finally, the Centzon Mimixcoa are defeated by his five younger brothers, who served the Sun, Tonatiuh, and gave him a drink.
145:, Camaxtle-Mixcoatl, one of the four gods, ascended to the Eighth Heaven and created four men and one woman to feed the Sun, but barely formed, they fell into the water, they returned to the sky and there was no war; frustrated by this attempt, Camaxtle struck a cane on a rock, and at the blow, 400 Chichimecs Mimixcoa sprouted that populated the earth before the Aztecs. Camaxtle was able to do penance on the rock, drawing blood with maguey spikes, tongue and ears, and prayed to the gods that the four men and one woman created in the eighth heaven would come down to kill the barbarians to feed to the Sun.
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Fifth Sun had not yet been created. The myth is evidently at pains to point out a fundamental relationship between the supreme god, Tezcatlipoca and
Mixcoatl. Camaxtle-Mixcoatl, in fact, is a perfect replica of that god of the dawn in both his trappings as depicted in the codices and in his mythology, which makes him the father of
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Mixcoatl in the second year after the great flood at the end of the fourth aeon when the sky crashed down up the earth. Acting then as Mixcoatl, the divine one proceeded to create fire by drilling with a stick into a fireboard. This was the first light for the
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went into a cave (Chicomoztoc or
Tlalocan) and gave birth to five other Mimixcoa called Cuauhtlicoauh, Mixcoatl, Cuitlachcihuatl, Tlotepe and Apantecuhtli. After spending four days in the water, the five Mimixcoa were suckled by Mecitli, who, by the text, identifies with the Earth Goddess
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282:(in Spanish). Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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202:Burr Cartwright Brundage
63:with the Earth Goddess (
987:Aubin Manuscript no. 20
307:. Library of Congress.
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1222:Relación de Michoacán
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1157:Matrícula de Tributos
1082:Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
527:Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli
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1312:Codex Zouche-Nuttall
1262:Anales de Tlatelolco
1152:Codex Magliabechiano
402:(Four Tezcatlipocas)
1202:Codex Porfirio Díaz
1197:Primeros Memoriales
1112:Codex Ixtlilxochitl
1107:Humboldt fragment 1
1097:Códice de Huichapan
1007:Badianus Manuscript
961:The Stinking Corpse
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1167:Crónica Mexicayotl
1052:Codex Chimalpopoca
641:Itzpapalotlcihuatl
621:Huitztlampaehecatl
482:Tezcatlipoca (see
448:Lords of the Night
211:Centzonhuītznāhuah
80:Manuscript of 1558
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933:Tlillan-Tlapallan
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548:Acuecueyotl (see
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89:Cuāuhtli-icohuauh
78:According to the
55:Centzon Mīmixcōah
16:(Redirected from
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1087:Codex Florentine
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997:Codex Azcatitlan
992:Aubin Tonalamatl
923:Thirteen Heavens
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1272:Mapa Tloztin
1147:Codex Madrid
1032:Codex Borgia
1022:Codex Bodley
947:Beliefs and
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862:Xiuhtotontli
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791:Yacatecuhtli
771:Xōchiquetzal
731:Tlacotzontli
721:Temazcalteci
716:Tēcciztēcatl
616:Huēhuecoyōtl
606:Coyolxāuhqui
576:Chicomecōātl
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532:Tlaltecuhtli
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398:Creator gods
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1217:Codex Reese
1187:Paris Codex
1177:Codex Osuna
1077:Codex Durán
1062:Codex Cospi
982:Aubin Codex
918:Teotihuacan
893:Chicomoztoc
852:Tiānquiztli
796:Zacatzontli
776:Xochitlicue
736:Tlalocayotl
726:Tepoztēcatl
636:Ītzpāpālōtl
522:Nanahuatzin
495:Tlazōlteōtl
478:Tepēyōllōtl
363:Primordials
174:Chicomoztoc
143:Teotihuacan
1333:Aztec gods
1327:Categories
1227:Codex Ríos
1117:Codex Laud
913:Tamoanchan
907:Underworld
888:Cemanahuac
857:Tzitzimitl
837:Cihuateteo
812:Ahuiateteo
766:Xōchipilli
596:Cipactonal
586:Cihuacōātl
512:Citlālicue
425:Xipe Totec
223:References
150:Chichimecs
109:Tlo-tepētl
956:Five Suns
842:Civateteo
756:Tonantzin
751:Toltecatl
656:Ixtlilton
601:Cōātlīcue
99:Mix-cōātl
69:Coatlicue
949:practice
928:Tlālōcān
832:Cintēteo
711:Patecatl
696:Opochtli
691:Mixcoatl
676:Mayahuel
581:Chīmalmā
571:Chantico
561:Atlacoya
537:Tōnatiuh
463:Cinteotl
453:Centeōtl
429:Camaxtle
370:Ōmeteōtl
200:—
161:Mimixcoa
61:Mixcoatl
975:Codices
903:Mictlān
878:Anahuac
761:Xilonen
741:Tlilhua
701:Oxomoco
681:Metztli
611:Ehecatl
556:Atlahua
440:Deities
154:Otomies
938:Tōllān
883:Aztlán
871:Places
805:Groups
786:Xolotl
781:Xocotl
706:Painal
490:Tláloc
311:
286:
186:father
182:father
34:, the
905:(The
746:Toci
427:(or
376:and
309:ISBN
284:ISBN
152:or
67:or
51:or
30:In
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268:^
243:^
231:^
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348:e
341:t
334:v
317:.
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