96.] Some later writers say that the drink which Quetzalcoatl quaffed was to confer immortality.

This is not stated in the earliest versions of the myth.

The beverage is health-giving and intoxicating, and excites the desire to seek Tlapallan, but not more.

It does not, as the Soma of the Vedas, endow with unending life.
Nevertheless, there is another myth which countenances this view and explains it.

It was told in the province of Meztitlan, a mountainous country to the northwest of the province of Vera Cruz.