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	Sister Stories - Toxcatl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On his feast in Toxcatl, when he was to die, he was first dressed, with eagle down covering his head, popcorn flower garlands and a stole of popcorn flowers, with shell jewelry, and the bells called oyoalli on his legs.
		He wore these ornaments until he married his four brides, the human images of the goddesses Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan, and Huixtocihuatl.
		When he was married, his hair was cut into a warrior's style, and his ornaments replaced with those of a warrior.
	www.nyupress.org /sisterstories/toxcatl/toxcatl.html (107 words)

	Phenomenon - the Civilization page - Aztec Gods -Tezcatlipoca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Numerous references in legend to his use of seduction to gain his ends, he was a master of trickery.
		In the most noted sacrifice to him, his impersonator was given four wives before he was to be killed, they were called, Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan, and Huixtocihuatl, representing in order, sexual pleasure(*8), food, drink, and salt.
		His ritual Ixiptla and geographical sacrificial area is curiously in the territory considered sacred to Huitzilopochtli, the south shore of the lake.
	www.stateoftheart.nl /phenomenon/frames/subjects/mythology/aztec/gods/tezcatlipoca.htm (2633 words)

	Aztec Nation.
		Twenty days before the celebration of the festival, his dress was changed to that of a great captain.
		He was married to four young maidens, incarnations of the wives of the god of providence: Xochiqutzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan, and Huixtocíhuatl.
		When the day of the festival finally came, banquets, ceremonies, and dances were held in honor of the youth.
	www.ancientworlds.net /565776 (6335 words)

	Atlatonan - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Aztec Mythology, Atlatonin or Atlatonan was a mother goddess and a goddess of the coast.
		She is associated with Tezcatlipoca, and in some myths is said to be one of his wives.
		This page was last modified 03:21, 30 May 2006.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php?title=Atlatonan&printable=yes (42 words)

	The Aztec Gateway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was treated as a god and dined with the nobility.
		When Toxcatl came the next year, he would be wedded to four women who were themselves ixiptla of the goddesses Xochiquetzal, Xilonen, Atlatonan, and Huixtocihuatl.
		They represented physical pleasures of life- sexual love, food, drink, and salt, respectively.
	www.amoxtli.org /cuezali/festivals.html (2784 words)

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