_Naca_ is not applied to edible flesh--that is expressed by the word _nonoac_--but is the flesh of our own bodies, our life, existence.

See _Anales de Cuauhtitlan_, p.

18, note.] Of these four brothers, two were the black and the red Tezcatlipoca, and the fourth was Huitzilopochtli, the Left handed, the deity adored beyond all others in the city of Mexico.

Tezcatlipoca--for the two of the name blend rapidly into one as the myth progresses--was wise beyond compute; he knew all thoughts and hearts, could see to all places, and was distinguished for power and forethought.
At a certain time the four brothers gathered together and consulted concerning the creation of things.

The work was left to Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli.