Quetzalcoatl burned himself on the eastern shore after his exile from Tula, and his heart rose from the pyre as Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the morning star — brilliant and wrathful, hurling darts of light at the newly risen sun.
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was transformed into Itztlacoliuhqui after the sun hurled his own darts back at him — the brilliant morning star struck blind and frozen into the god of frost and obsidian cold.
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the morning star, challenged Tonatiuh at the dawn of the Fifth Sun, hurling darts of light at the newly risen sun — but Tonatiuh struck back and cast the morning star down, transforming him into the frost god Itztlacoliuhqui.
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