In Nahuatl, animals of this kind that had ritual significance were called Itzcuintli, while ordinary ones were known as chichimeh.
In Nahuatl, animals of this kind that had ritual significance were called Itzcuintli, while ordinary ones were known as chichimeh. According to the Popol Vuh, these animals teamed up with turkeys to kill the people of the second age who abused them. The man and woman Tata and Nene were turned into these creatures by Tezcatlipoca, who cut off their heads and sewed them onto their rumps while the Hero Twins sacrificed one of these animals and brought it back to life to impress One-Death and Seven-Death. The Maya believed these animals to be psychopomps and thus buried their dead with bodies of these animals, while the Tzotzil and Tzeltal held that a yellow one of these creatures mated with Eve to produce Indians. These creatures are most associated with a god who turned into a maize sprout, a maguey plant, and a salamander in order to elude Death. For ten points, identify these animals of Mesoamerican myth, most often associated with Quetzlcoatl's twin, the god Xolotl, and which in Incan myth were sacrificed to Ilyapa.
In Nahuatl, animals of this kind that had ritual significance were called Itzcuintli, while ordinary ones were known as chichimeh.
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