Mother of Quetzalcoatl
According to the ''Manuscript of 1558'', section 7, the begetting of Quetzalcoatl happened in this way: "And then when Mixcoatl went to... Huitznahuac, the woman Chimalman came out to confront him... She stood naked, without skirt or shift." While she stood thus, Mixcoatl shot an arrow "between her legs"—on two occasions. "And when this had occurred, he took the woman of Huitznauac, the one who is Chimalman, and Sexual intercourse, lay with her and so she became Pregnancy, pregnant." Another version indicates that Mixcoatl saw Chimalman while hunting in the Morelos valley and fell in love with her. When his efforts to approach her failed, he became angry and shot five arrows at her, all of which she caught in her bare hand. She was given the name "shield-hand" and they were later married, but unable to conceive a child. After praying on the altar of Quetzalcoatl, the priest told Chimalman to swallow a small precious stone, after which she became pregnant. This angered Quetzalcoatl's brother, Tezcatlipoca, such that he persuaded others to kill Mixcoatl. Chimalman fled to her hometown of Tepoztlán, Tepoztlan and died giving birth to her son Ce Acatl Topiltzin, Topiltzin. Topiltzin would later discover his identity as Quetzalcoatl and that he was sent to help the Toltec civilization. This version is similar to the ''Codex Chimalpopoca'', that indicated, "...Quetzalcoatl was placed in her belly when she swallowed a piece of jade."John Bierhorst: ''History and Mythology of the Aztecs; the Codex Chimalpopoca''. University of Arizona Press, Arizona, 1992, p. 28.References
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