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Huitzilopochtli burst forth from his mother's womb in full armor and fully grown, or in other versions of the story, burst forth from the womb and immediately put on his gear. [14] He attacked his older brothers and sister, defending his mother by beheading his sister and casting her body from the mountain top.
The legend of Huitzilopochtli is recorded in the Mexicayotl Chronicle. His sister, Coyolxauhqui, tried to kill their mother because she became pregnant in a shameful way (by a ball of feathers). Her offspring, Huitzilopochtli, learned of this plan while still in the womb, and before it was put into action, sprang from his mother's womb fully ...
Cuahuitlicac was Coatlicue's son and Huitzilopochtli's brother. Cuahuitlicac warned the unborn Huitzilopochtli that Coatlicue's other 400 children were planning to kill her to prevent the birth of Huitzilopochtli. Cuahuitlicac is a god of the northern stars as part of the Centzonmimixcoa. Centzonhuitznāhuah, the 400 gods of the southern stars.
[2] [3] Huītzilōpōchtli beheaded his sister Coyolxāuhqui, who became the moon. Huītzilōpōchtli chased after his brothers, who, in fleeing their brother, became scattered all over the sky. [4] The Centzonhuītznāhua are known as the "Four Hundred Southerners"; the gods of the northern stars are the Centzonmīmixcōa.
The Mexica/Aztec were said to be guided by their patron war-god Huitzilopochtli, meaning "Left-handed Hummingbird" or "Hummingbird from the South." At an island in Lake Texcoco, they saw an eagle, perched on a nopal cactus, holding a rattlesnake in its talons. This vision fulfilled a prophecy telling them that they should found their new home ...
Xochitlicue (meaning in Nahuatl 'the one that has her skirt of flowers') is the Aztec goddess of fertility, patroness of life and death, guide of rebirth, younger sister of Coatlicue, Huitzilopochtli's mother according Codex Florentine; and Chimalma, Quetzalcoatl's mother according Codex Chimalpopoca. [1]
Also shortly after Huitziltzin died, Tozcuecuextli ordered that his remains be transformed into tlaquimilolli (sacred wrapping) and they gave him the name Huitzilopochtli. Tozcuecuextli continued to rule, and his new right arm Huehue Cuauhtlequetzqui (father of Cuauhtlequetzqui of 1281) supported him until his death in 1272. [1] He died in Tlachco.
Coyolxauhqui appears in the legend of Huitzilopochtli's birth/origins at Coatepec (cf. Sahagun Book III), where she is his elder (half-)sister who, enraged/ashamed at her mother Coatlicue becoming (unwittingly) pregnant with Huitzilopochtli, stirs up her brothers —the Centzonuitznaua— to have her mother killed.