Xochipilli the Flower Prince and Xochiquetzal the Flower Quetzal are paired as the male and female faces of beauty, pleasure, and artistic creation in the Aztec pantheon.
⚠ Sources vary on whether Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal are consorts, siblings, or male-female aspects of a single flower deity. Sahag\u00fan treats them as separate but paired figures.
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.
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