Let me tell you some stories about the first Mexica family. Their mother was Coatlicue, Serpent-Skirt. Her eldest child was Coyolxauhqui, She-Decorated-with-Bells. Her younger brothers were the 400 Huitznahua, the 400 people of the south. Among them was one called Cuauhuitlicac. Finally there was the youngest brother, Huitzilopochtli. He had no father; he was conceived from a ball of feathers swept up by his mother, Coatlicue, in the place called Coatepec, Hill of the Serpent.