Birth), which they looked upon as the original home of the maize-plant. A song sung at the atamalqualiztli festival is as follows:
Born is the Maize-god
In the House of Descent,
In the place where the flowers are,
The god One-flower.
The Maize-god is born
In the place of water and of mist,
Where the children of men are made.
In the jewel Michoacan.
He is also associated with the flower-gods in certain strophes of the song to these divinities:
On the ball-ground the quetzalcoxcoxtli sings;
The Maize-god answers him.
Beautifully sings our friend the quetzal,
In the twilight of the red maize god.
My song shall be heard by the lord of the twilight,
The god with the thigh-skin face-painting.