Tlillan-Tlapallan
Sign in to saveTlapallan From Aztec mythology: a legendary place on the coast of Mexico. When the divine lord Quetzalcoatl was afflicted by old age and illness, and outraged at the violence of the trickster Titlacuahan, he fled to Tlapallan. From there he sailed away on a raft of snakes. The source says,
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Tlapallan From Aztec mythology: a legendary place on the coast of Mexico. When the divine lord Quetzalcoatl was afflicted by old age and illness, and outraged at the violence of the trickster Titlacuahan, he fled to Tlapallan. From there he sailed away on a raft of snakes. The source says,
"And this is how he went away, sailing over the sea. And it is not known how... he reached this place Tlapallan." (General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 3, chapter 14)
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