Dating : Chronicles of Quetzalcoatl

Year of Thirteen Rabbits

Having already conquered most of the cities in the surrounding region, Myxkoatlh arrived at Amatlan. However, he was more cautious than usual because he’d heard stories of an unconquerable maid named Khymalmh. Hence he decided to do a little scouting on his own.

Within a ravine, he fashioned a bivouac among the brambles and hid in wait near a gorge.

Someone had told him that this was where Khymalmh took her daily bath. Sure enough, at dawn, she came down to the water. Seeing her put aside her armaments and garments, Myxkoatlh thought he had the upper hand.

Stepping out into the open with his bow and arrow, he taunted her:

“It seems I’ve caught you at unawares — oh mighty Khymalmh — surrender to me and agree to be my bride!”

Yet although she was naked, Khymalmh stood steadfast, with the rising sun reflecting gloriously off her body. She retorted in kind:

“So you think me defenseless? Go ahead — lose your arrow and put my speed to the test!”

Accepting her challenge, Myxkoatlh let fly his first dart, which Khymalmh easily evaded by quickly tilting her head. She mocked him:

“You’re going to have to do a lot better than that to pierce my side — Myxkoatlh of the blessed elk’s hide.”

Incensed, that man shot to plant one in her waist — but the warrior woman deflected it with a snap of her hip! A third missile was snatched from the air and broken in half by her hand. Whereas a fourth passed between her limber legs while she performed a cartwheel!

That was as many arrows as Myxkoatlh had in his quiver. Now Khymalmh strode calmly across the water. Then she proposed to him:

“If you truly wish to have my hand in matrimony, burn your famous shield presently, and I shall pledge you my fealty.”

Seeing this as an acceptable compromise, Myxkoatlh made the necessary sacrifice. When said, ægis was placed in the fire pit, and it sparked loudly — exploding into various fragments of black, blue, red, and white gems!

The couple collected these, considering them a good omen from ItzPapalotl (obsidian butterfly).

However, Myxkoatlh was recalled on state business to the Toltec capital of Tollan. Therefore, their wedding needed to be postponed. He asked Khymalmh to await his return in Tlamanco temple — a request to which she faithfully acceded.

Although as fate would have it, one morning after Khymalmh had bathed in the grotto behind the temple, she saw something shining just beneath the lagoon’s surface.

On closer inspection, an iridescent fish peeked its head out and offered her a smooth jade pebble from its mouth. Khymalmh was intrigued and took this offering. As she didn’t have anything to carry it in, she put it under her tongue.

On her way back, Khymalmh stumbled on a stone and accidentally swallowed the jade!

It wasn’t long before she started showing the telltale symptoms of pregnancy. When word of this got to her betrothed, he was infuriated. Notwithstanding, he had the local priests cast an oracle to determine the true nature of his wife-to-be’s condition.

The soothsayers were genuinely afraid as well as awed; they told the king that this was indeed an immaculate conception and that no harm should befall the baby. According to them, Khymalmh carried the grace of heaven itself in her womb. It was all exactly as Huemanh had foretold.

Pleased with such a prognostication, Myxkoatlh publicly announced his intention to marry Khymalmh and even acknowledged the heavenly babe as his progeny.