Tlillan-Tlapallan 'Place of the black and red colour' is a legendary place or region on the Gulf Coast of Mexico where king Quetzalcoatl went on his flight from Tollan in order to burn himself and change into the Morning Star. The tale can be found in an important 16th-century

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in ...

(the Codex Chimalpopoca) containing the Annals of Quauhtitlan. Written in

Nahua The Nahuas () are a group of the indigenous people of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. They comprise the largest indigenous group in Mexico and second largest in El Salvador. The Mexica (Aztecs) were of Nahua ethnicity, a ...

, the text basically translates a pre-Spanish book. The tale also occurs in

Bernardino de Sahagún Bernardino de Sahagún, OFM (; – 5 February 1590) was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico). Born in Sahagún, Spain, in 1499, ...

's General History of the Things of New Spain. The name Tlillan Tlapallan has been interpreted as referring to writing and books.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20071020222852/http://weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/quetzalcoatl/que.htm Locations in Aztec mythology Locations in Mesoamerican mythology {{mesoamerica-myth-stub