(, 'Five Rabbit'; from

Classical Nahuatl Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Lat ...

: , 'five' + , 'rabbit') is one of the five deities from

Aztec The Aztecs ( ) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the Post-Classic stage, post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central ...

and other central Mexican

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ...

mythological traditions who, known collectively as the , symbolized excess, over-indulgence and the attendant punishments and consequences thereof. and the other — ('5 flower'), ('5 lizard'), ('5 vulture'), and ('5 grass')— bore the names of specific days in the (Aztec/central Mexican version of the Mesoamerican 260-day calendar), where the day coefficient () of ''five'' had overtones associated with excess and loss of control. Postclassic central Mexican traditions identified

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 with the beverage and insobriety, and by extension had a particular association with inebriation and excessive consumption.Miller and Taube (1993), p.142. was also part of the , the four hundred rabbits which were all gods of drunkenness.

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* * * * {{Mesoamerica-myth-stub Aztec pulque gods Rabbit deities

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