POTTERY FIGURE OF XOCHIPILLI.

(Found at Teotlan del Camino.)

MYTH

The only mythical matter of importance concerning Macuilxochitl or Xochipilli is the nineteenth song in the Sahagun collection, which is as follows[41]:

Song of the God of Music and Games

Out of the place of flowers I come,

Priest of the Sunset, Lord of the Twilight.

I come even now, my granddam,

Thou of the thigh-skin face-painting,

Lady of the Sunset,