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The ixiptla, the human image of Tezcatlipoca, Smoking Mirror, the black double of Huitzilopochtli, walked the streets of Tenochtitlan for a year playing reed flutes. On his feast in Toxcatl, when he was to die, he was first dressed, with eagle down covering his head, popcorn flower garlands and a stole of popcorn flowers, with shell jewelry, and the bells called oyoalli on his legs. He wore these ornaments until he married his four brides, the human images of the goddesses Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan, and Huixtocihuatl. When he was married, his hair was cut into a warrior's style, and his ornaments replaced with those of a warrior. |
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