Huitzilopochtli was remembered in the month of the Precious/Feathered Banners. A dough of amaranth seed was made to form the image of the god: "They ground it, they kneaded it well, they divided it into pieces, they put it into bowls; they filled the bowls with it as if it were the yellow pigment axin, as if it were feather down." And the dough image was killed by the priest Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, pierced in the heart with a flint dart, in front of the tlatoani, the Speaker. They broke up his body in pieces, and the heart went to the Speaker, and the rest of the body to the people of the calpulli, the residents of Tenochtitlan.