Xochipilli

Xochipilli holds everything the Mexica thought of as delight, which in their arrangement is one category: flowers, song, dance, painting, writing, games, sex, and the state of being beautifully young. The famous statue of him — seated cross-legged, head tipped back, mouth open — has flowers carved all over its body and plinth, and when botanists went through them they turned out to be a specific list of psychoactive plants. Whether the sculptor intended that as a catalogue is argued about; that the flowers are identifiable and are those flowers is not.

Domains

• flowers
• music

Relations

• sibling: IxtliltonOne of the two brothers.Reference treatment naming Ixtlilton as Xochipilli's brother. (secondary)
• sibling: MacuilxochitlThe other.Reference treatment naming Macuilxochitl as Xochipilli's brother. (secondary)
• counterpart of: XochiquetzalPaired with the flower goddess the registry already carried; some sources make them twins and others a couple, and this record states the pairing without choosing.Reference treatments of Xochipilli and Xochiquetzal, the flower prince and the flower-quetzal, paired in the sources as male and female of the same sphere. (secondary)

Sources

• Xochipilli, the Flower Prince, is the Mexica god of flowers, beauty, youth, song, dance, games and the arts, brother of Ixtlilton and Macuilxochitl.: Reference treatments of Xochipilli, his spheres and his brothers. (secondary)