Mayahuel the maguey goddess and Patecatl the god of fermentation bore the Centzon Totochtin, the Four Hundred Rabbits — an innumerable brood of pulque gods, each embodying a different face of drunkenness from joyful to violent.
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.
The Tzitzimimeh pursued Mayahuel to earth after Ehecatl stole her from the sky, catching the lovers in their tree-form and tearing Mayahuel's branches apart, devouring her flesh and leaving only bare bones for Ehecatl to bury.
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