Mixcoatl shot an arrow at Chimalman, and from that piercing she conceived Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl — the priest-king destined to rule Tula — though Chimalman died bringing the Feathered Serpent into the world.
⚠ The Anales de Cuauhtitlan and Leyenda de los Soles present this as the parentage of Ce Acatl Topiltzin, the legendary priest-king identified with the deity Quetzalcoatl. The cosmic deity's origin from the Ometeotl pair is a separate tradition.
Camaxtli is the Tlaxcaltec name for Mixcoatl, the Cloud Serpent — worshipped as the patron deity of Tlaxcala, where he received the same hunting and war attributes but served as the city-state's protector against the Aztec Empire.
Mixcoatl and his four companions slaughtered the Centzon Mimixcoa, the four hundred Cloud Serpents who had squandered their sacred duty to feed the Sun and Moon, hunting game and lying with women while the celestial bodies starved for blood.
Mixcoatl and the Mimixcoa shot Itzpapalotl with arrows and cast her into a great fire in Tamoanchan, and from her ashes burst five flint knives — the sacred tecpatl blades destined for the cutting of human hearts.
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