Mexica

Xochiquetzal

Flower Quetzal

Flowers and the quetzal at once. Xochiquetzal keeps the young, the woven, the sung. Tezcatlipoca stole her from Tlaloc in one telling, and the Third Sun ended in fire-rain. She is not a shallow 'love goddess.' Flower and song — in xōchitl, in cuīcatl — was how the Mexica named the highest art, and she sits at that phrase.

In xōchitl, in cuīcatl — flower and song — is the pair that names the highest making. The hummingbird lives on that flower. The old sayings.