Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl

Aztec/Mexica · demigod · chichimec migration · demigod

Legendary priest-king of Tula. Conflated genealogically with the deity Quetzalcoatl through descent and through eventual apotheosis. The most important demigod-becoming-deity figure in Mesoamerican tradition. His prophesied return shaped Aztec response to Cortés in 1519. Among the most iconographically and politically over-attested figures in the entire pre-Columbian corpus.

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