Mimixcoa
The Mimixcoa are beings created to serve the Sun by providing sacrificial victims. The first 400 Mimixcoa (also called Chichimecs or Otomies) were created when Camaxtle struck a cane on a rock and they sprouted to populate the earth before the Aztecs. Five additional Mimixcoa were born from Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue in a cave and were suckled by Mecitli; these five later defeated the 400 who had failed in their duty by getting drunk and having sex with women instead of serving the Sun.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mecitli, Coatlicue, Mixcoatl, Tezcatlipōca, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl
- serves
- Tonatiuh
- created by
- Camaxtle
- has aspect
- Apantecuhtli, Cuauhtlicoauh, Cuitlachcihuatl, Tlotepe
- child of
- Tlaltecuhtli, Camaxtle, Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue
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Sources
Source passages
“Within these caverns lived the Four Hundred Mimixcoa, a turbulent group of titans born of the Earth Goddess (Tlaltecuhtli or Coatlicue). Their father, the Sun (Tonatiuh) taught them the use of weapons so they might hunt and supply their divine parents with nourishment.”
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