When The East Wind Cries Poem by soren Barrett

Tezcatlipoca the creator god of the Aztecs has four avatars representing the four directions. His obsidian mirror used to see the future Xilonen corn maiden, each year a girl selected to represent her was treated as a princess for a month then beheaded to represent the harvest of the corn. Tlaloc god of rain, thunder and storm Xipe Toteuc (the great flayed one) a god of sacrifice wore the flayed skins of his victims until they rotted off. (imitated by the priests at the sacrifice) The Aztecs believed that eating the flesh of sacrificial victims and their hearts gave them their strength and made them slaves to the eater. Mictlantecutli is the god of the underworld Tlalocayotl is the god of the east wind or creation