At another spot he caused underground houses to be built, which were called Mictlancalco, At the House of Darkness.
At length he arrived at the sea coast where he constructed a raft of serpents, and seating himself on it as in a canoe, he moved out to sea.

No one knows how or in what manner he reached Tlapallan.[1] [Footnote 1: These myths are from the third book of Sahagun's _Historia de las Cosas de Nueva Espana_.

They were taken down in the original Nahuatl, by him, from the mouth of the natives, and he gives them word for word, as they were recounted.] The legend which appears to have been prevalent in Cholula was somewhat different.

According to that, Quetzalcoatl was for many years Lord of Tollan, ruling over a happy people.

At length, Tezcatlipoca let himself down from heaven by a cord made of spider's web, and, coming to Tollan, challenged its ruler to play a game of ball.