Ehecatl descended to the sky realm and carried Mayahuel to earth to be his lover, the two lying together as intertwined trees, but the Tzitzimimeh pursued them and tore Mayahuel apart.
Quetzalcoatl takes the form of Ehecatl when he moves as wind — duck-billed mask cutting the air, sweeping the roads of the sky clean so Tlaloc's rains may fall.
Ehecatl sacrificed the assembled gods at Teotihuacan to set the newborn Fifth Sun in motion, but Xolotl fled in terror — transforming into a double maize stalk, a maguey, and finally an axolotl before Ehecatl caught and slew him, the last god to die.
Ehecatl sweeps the roads of the sky clean before Tlaloc's rains, his wind driving dust and clearing the heavens so the storm god's waters may fall unimpeded upon the earth.
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