Xochipilli manifests as Macuilxochitl, Five Flower, when the Flower Prince turns from beauty toward the dangerous edge of pleasure — presiding over the patolli board where gamblers stake their freedom and every losing roll feeds the god's hunger.
The five Ahuiateteo — Macuilxochitl, Macuilcuetzpalin, Macuilcozcacuauhtli, Macuiltochtli, and Macuilmalinalli — each named for a day-sign prefixed with "five," bestowed the pleasures of gambling, feasting, and the body, then struck with disease anyone who took too much.
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