Mexica mythology The Mexica (Nahuatl: ; singular ) are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire. The Mexica established Tenochtitlan, a settlement on an island ...

, the Centzon Tōtōchtin ( "four-hundred

rabbit Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated ...

s"; also Centzontōtōchtin) are a group of divine rabbits who meet for frequent drunken parties. They include Tepoztecatl, Texcatzonatl, Colhuatzincatl,

Macuiltochtli (, 'Five Rabbit'; from Classical Nahuatl: , 'five' + , 'rabbit') is one of the five deities from Aztec and other central Mexican pre-Columbian mythological traditions who, known collectively as the , symbolized excess, over-indulgence and the att ...

("five-rabbit"), and

Ometochtli In Aztec mythology, Ometochtli () is the collective or generic name of various individual deities and supernatural figures associated with pulque ('), an alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented sap of the '' maguey'' plant. By the Late Postc ...

("two-rabbit"). Their parents are

Patecatl In Aztec mythology, Patecatl is a god of healing and fertility and the discoverer of peyote as well as the "lord of the root of pulque". With Mayahuel, he was the father of the Centzon Totochtin. In the Aztec calendar The Aztec or Mexica cal ...

and

Mayahuel Mayahuel () is the female deity associated with the maguey plant among cultures of central Mexico in the Postclassic era of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology, and in particular of the Aztec cultures. As the personification of the maguey plant ...

Amoxaltepetl by Christian Aboytes, Mexico, 2006 and they may be brothers of

Ixtlilton Ixtlilton ( ,"ink at the face", from ''īxtli'', "face", "eye", ''tlīlli'', "black ink", and ''-tōn'', diminutive suffix) in Aztec mythology is a god of medicine and healing and therefore was often alluded to as the brother of Macuilxochitl, th ...

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