(, 'Five Rabbit'; from

Classical Nahuatl Classical Nahuatl (also known simply as Aztec or Nahuatl) is any of the variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a ''lingua franca'' at the time of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. During the s ...

: , 'five' + , 'rabbit') is one of the five deities from

Aztec The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those g ...

and other central Mexican

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, th ...

mythological traditions who, known collectively as the , symbolized excess, over-indulgence and the attendant punishments and consequences thereof. and the other — ('5 flower'), ('5 lizard'), ('5 vulture'), and ('5 grass')— bore the names of specific days in the (Aztec/central Mexican version of the Mesoamerican 260-day calendar), where the day coefficient () of ''five'' had overtones associated with excess and loss of control. Postclassic central Mexican traditions identified

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 with the beverage and insobriety, and by extension had a particular association with inebriation and excessive consumption.Miller and Taube (1993), p.142. was also part of the , the four hundred

s which were all gods of drunkenness.

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