Huemac, the last ruler of Tula, withdrew into Cincalco beneath Chapultepec hill after the fall of the Toltec capital, presiding over its inexhaustible stores of maize in a subterranean exile.
Huemac ruled Tollan as the last king after Quetzalcoatl's exile, presiding over its decline as famine and sorcery ravaged the city until the Toltec capital finally fell and Huemac fled to Chapultepec.
Huemac played the ball game against the Tlaloque and won, but when they offered him ears of maize he demanded jade and quetzal feathers instead, provoking the rain gods to withhold their waters and starve Tollan into ruin.
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