Macuilxochitl

Macuilxochitl runs the games and collects on them. He heads the Ahuiateteo, the five gods of excess, whose function is the sharp edge on the pleasures his brother presides over: they send disease to people who overdo it, particularly in gambling and in sex. The Mexica did not separate the god who gives you the party from the god who gives you the consequences — they made them brothers, and gave the consequences a calendar name so you would know which day to watch.

Domains

• games

Relations

• sibling: XochipilliBrother of the flower prince.Reference treatment naming Macuilxochitl as Xochipilli's brother. (secondary)
• sibling: IxtliltonBrother of Ixtlilton.Reference treatment naming the three as brothers. (secondary)

Sources

• Macuilxochitl, 'Five Flower', is the Mexica god of games and gambling, chief of the Ahuiateteo or gods of excess, and brother of Xochipilli and Ixtlilton.: Reference treatments of Macuilxochitl and of the Ahuiateteo. (secondary)