For I must leave before it appears."[1] [Footnote 1: Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib.

XIV, cap.

XXII.] Sec.2._Quetzalcoatl the God._ In the ancient and purely mythical narrative, Quetzalcoatl is one of four divine brothers, gods like himself, born in the uttermost or thirteenth heaven to the infinite and uncreated deity, which, in its male manifestations, was known as _Tonaca tecutli_, Lord of our Existence, and _Tzin teotl_, God of the Beginning, and in its female expressions as _Tonaca cihuatl_, Queen of our Existence, _Xochiquetzal_, Beautiful Rose, _Citlallicue_, the Star-skirted or the Milky Way, _Citlalatonac_, the Star that warms, or The Morning, and _Chicome coatl_, the Seven Serpents.[1] [Footnote 1: The chief authorities on the birth of the god Quetzalcoatl, are Ramirez de Fuen-leal _Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas_, Cap.

i, printed in the _Anales del Museo Nacional_; the _Codex Telleriano-Remensis_, and the _Codex Vaticanus_, both of which are in Kingsborough's _Mexican Antiquities_.
The usual translation of _Tonaca tecutli_ is "God of our Subsistence," _to_, our, _naca_, flesh, _tecutli_, chief or lord.

It really has a more subtle meaning.