viii.] A more minute account is given by the author of the _Annals of Cuauhtitlan_, a work written at an early date, in the Aztec tongue.

He assures his readers that his narrative of these particular events is minutely and accurately recorded from the oldest and most authentic traditions.

It is this:-- When those opposed to Quetzalcoatl did not succeed in their designs, they summoned to their aid a demon or sorcerer, by name Tezcatlipoca, and his assistants.

He said: "We will give him a drink to dull his reason, and will show him his own face in a mirror, and surely he will be lost." Then Tezcatlipoca brewed an intoxicating beverage, the _pulque_, from the maguey, and taking a mirror he wrapped it in a rabbit skin, and went to the house of Quetzalcoatl.
"Go tell your master," he said to the servants, "that I have come to show him his own flesh." "What is this ?" said Quetzalcoatl, when the message was delivered.

"What does he call my own flesh?
Go and ask him." But Tezcatlipoca refused.