Quetzalcoatl descended to Mictlan and outwitted Mictlantecuhtli to steal the bones of the dead from prior ages. Cihuacoatl, in her guise as Quilaztli, ground the bones in her jade bowl, and Quetzalcoatl bled over them — from that mixture of divine blood and ancestral remains the Macehualtin, the people of the Fifth Sun, took form.
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