World at War / Conflicts / Aztec Myth
Wars of the Five Suns
Battle of Coatepec
1100 BC
Coatepec
Status: ended
Casualties: Coyolxauhqui dismembered; her brothers slain
The earth-mother Coatlicue conceived Huitzilopochtli from a ball of feathers. Her daughter Coyolxauhqui, dishonoured, gathered her four hundred brothers to kill the mother. Huitzilopochtli sprang from the womb fully armed with the fire-serpent Xiuhcoatl, beheaded Coyolxauhqui and rolled her dismembered body down the mountain. Florentine Codex III.
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Belligerents
- Huitzilopochtli, born fully armed
- Coyolxauhqui & 400 Centzonhuitznahua brothers
Casualties
Coyolxauhqui dismembered; her brothers slain
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