Piltzintecuhtli and Xochiquetzal bore Centeotl, the young maize god who emerged from the earth and from whose body the first cotton, grains, and useful plants sprouted forth.
⚠ Florentine Codex and Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas name Piltzintecuhtli and Xochiquetzal as parents, while the Codex Borgia tradition attributes Centeotl's birth to Tlazolteotl.
Tezcatlipoca seized Xochiquetzal from Tlaloc by force and claimed her as his own, an abduction that caused Tlaloc's rains to cease in grief and rage.
Tlaloc and Xochiquetzal were wed in the early age of the gods, rain and flowering beauty joined, until Tezcatlipoca tore her away and the rains turned bitter.
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.
Xochiquetzal plucked a flower from the forbidden tree at the heart of Tamoanchan, shattering the primordial paradise and casting the gods from their celestial dwelling into the mortal world below.
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