The god of drunkenness and fertility, god of the copper axe, lord of Tepoztlan, of the mountain and its waters, makes his entrance to Mictlan!
Tepoztecatl was one of the four hundred Aztec gods of pulque, the traditional drink of the Aztecs: fermented agave (or maguey) juice.
According to the myth, Tepoztecatl was present with the other gods (Mayahuel, Patecatl, Yauhtecatl, Totoltecatl) in the mountain Chichinauhia, where they prepared the legendary wine and tasted it for the first time.
The legend also depicts Tepoztecatl as a hero born from the Axitla spring and as being the one who killed the monster king Xochicalcatl, thus liberating the land of Morelos. El Tepozteco, in the Mexican state of Morelos, is an archaeological site named after the deity.
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