From time to time, those warriors could return to earth as butterflies or hummingbirds.
His mother was the mother of gods, and his father was a ball of feathers. Originally the patron god of the Mexicas, he was promoted when that tribe established the Aztec Empire. Warriors who died in battle and women who died in childbirth would ascend to his palace to serve him there. He was so brilliant that the warrior souls could see the god only through the arrow holes in their shields. From time to time, those warriors could return to earth as butterflies or hummingbirds. FTP, name this Mesoamerican god who shared the Templo Mayor with Tlaloc, the rain god and who reigned as god of war, sun and human sacrifice.
His mother was the mother of gods, and his father was a ball of feathers.
Huitzilopochtli