Xelhua

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Xelhua is one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology [1] who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula. One of the six giants sons of Mixcoatl, [2] the personification of the Milky Way.

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References

  1. http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Xelhua%5B%5D
  2. Cecilio A. Robelo (1905). Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa (in Spanish). Editorial Porrúa. pp. 121, 122, 123. ISBN   970-07-3149-9.