Ochilobos (the Spanish rendering of Uitzilopochtli) because he was left-handed and was chief god to those of Mexico and their god of war. He was born without flesh but with bones, and thus he remained six hundred years, in which nothing was made, ‘neither the gods nor their father.’ Taking counsel with Quetzalcoatl, they fashioned the sun, then they made a man, Oxomoco, and a woman, Cipactonal, commanding him to till the earth and her to spin and weave, and created other things.”
HYMNS
In the Sahagun MS. the following hymns or songs relate to Uitzilopochtli:—
# THE SONG OF UITZILOPOCHTLI
I
Uitzilopochtli the warrior, no one is my equal;
Not in vain have I put on the vestment of yellow feathers,
For through me the sun has risen (i.e. the time of sacrifice appears).
II
The man out of the cold land knew (through him) a baneful omen.
He had taken a foot from the man