The Goddess Gift

THE GODDESS GIFT

There was a beautiful place called Tamoanchan at the top of the Thirteen Heavens, the House of Descent, where the gods were born because of the grace and Tonacacihuatl Tonacatecuhtli. In the same heavenly place Xochitlicacan was the place where flowers grow, where dwelt the beautiful goddess Xochiquetzal, Flower Quetzal, with her husband Centéotl God.




 The goddess of beauty and love lived most watched and no one could see, only people who were serving were dwarfs and hunchbacks, who had as main task entertain with music, songs and dances, and take their messages, if wished Xochiquetzal contact one of the gods who lived in Tamoanchan. The day passed quietly dedicated young, mostly in the loom weaving exquisite waist and soft fabrics for their huipiles.

In Tamoanchan was a sacred tree full of flowers. Nobody could touch any of these flowers, failing to become a lover of the goddess. One day Xochiquetzal was knitting, reached her the god Tezcatlipoca transformed into a beautiful and colorful bird and dared to cut a tree flower. The god, with tricks and badly, seduced her. He had violated the prohibition of taking sacred tree flowers. The tree, feeling that he had torn a white flower, split in half and began to bleed. When the couple Tonacatecuhtli supreme gods and Tonacacihuatl, learned of Epecado committed by Xochiquetzal and Tezcatlipoca, they were expelled from the Tamoanchan, with all the gods living there. Some went to Earth and the Underworld other.

Tlazoltéotl became Xochiquetzal, the goddess of adulterers and filth, and Tezcatlipoca became Huehuecóyotl, Old Coyote, the god of dance and song.

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