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In Mexica mythology, the Centzon Tōtōchtin ( "four-hundred
In Mexica mythology, the Centzon Tōtōchtin ( "four-hundred rabbit
Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). ''Oryctolagus cuniculus'' includes the European rabbit speci ...
s"; also Centzontōtōchtin) are a group of divine rabbits who meet for frequent drunken parties. They include Tepoztecatl, Texcatzonatl, Colhuatzincatl, Macuiltochtli
(, 'Five Rabbit'; from Classical Nahuatl: , 'five' + , 'rabbit') is one of the five deities from Aztec and other central Mexican pre-Columbian mythological traditions who, known collectively as the , symbolized excess, over-indulgence and the atte ...
("five-rabbit"), and Ometochtli
In Aztec mythology, Ometochtli is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque ('), an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented sap of the ''maguey'' plant. By the Late Postclassi ...
("two-rabbit"). Their parents are Patecatl
In Aztec mythology, Patecatl is a god of healing and fertility and the discoverer of peyote as well as the "lord of the root of pulque". With Mayahuel, he was the father of the Centzon Totochtin.
In the Aztec calendar, Patecatl is the lord of ...
and Mayahuel
Mayahuel () is the female deity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the Aztec cultures. As the personification of the maguey plant, ...
Amoxaltepetl by Christian Aboytes, Mexico, 2006 and they may be brothers of Ixtlilton
Ixtlilton ( nah, Ixtlilton ,"ink at the face", from ''ixtli'', "face", "eye", ''tlilli'', "black ink", and ''-ton'', diminutive suffix) in Aztec mythology is a god of medicine and healing and therefore was often alluded to as the brother of Macuil ...
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