The Gospel of the Toltecs

The Gospel of the Toltecs
The Life and Teachings of Quetzalcoatl

Foreword by Victor Sanchez xi

PART ONE

1 Prophecy of Hueman the Elder 2
2 Chimalma 3
3 The Deer 7
4 In the Ravine 9
5 The Soothsayer Fish 12
6 The Oracle 14
7 The Birth 16
8 Ehecapiltontli 18
9 Childhood 21
10 His Father's Bones 23
11 Invitation to Tula 25
12 The Sacrifice 27
13 The White Cloud 31
14 The Enigmas of the Serpent 33
15 In the House of Prayer 38
16 The Kingdom 40
17 The Royal House 43
18 The Insignias 45

PART TWO

1 Tezcatlipoca 48
2 The Load of Firewood 51
3 The Whores 54
4 The Sons of Tlaloc 57
5 The Hunger 59
6 Petition to Tlaloc 61
7 The Blood Demands 64
8. The Daughter of the Mexicans 66
9 The Choice of the Mexicans 68
10 The Human Sacrifices 70
11 The Old Woman 73
12 The White Child 75
13 The Necromancer 78
14 Floods and Plagues 80
15 The Migrations 82
16 The Dance in the Garden 84
17 The Deformed Deer 87
18 The Conspiracy 90
19 The Rabbit in the Mirror 92
20 The Make-up 96
21 Drunkenness 98
22 The Fields of the Sun 111
23 The Kidnapping of the Princess 104
24 Quetzalpetatl 106
25 The Awakening 108
26 The Goddess of the Waters 110
27 The Expelling 112
28 The Coffin 114
29 The Farewell 117
30 At the Outskirts of Tula 120

PART THREE

1 Weeping Over Tula 124
2 The Nahual 126
3 The Crossroads 129
4 Song of Timal 131
5 In the Fountain 133
6 The Frost 136
7 His Followers 138
8 In the Kingdom of the South 140
9 The Well 143
10 In Cholula 145
11 The Teachings 147
12 The Banquet 161
13 The Priests of the God of Death 164
14 The Dream 167
15 The Embassy
16 "I Greet You" 172
17 The Relics 176

PART FOUR

1 Invocation to the Mother Earth 180
2 The Book 183
3 The Bridge 185
4 The Thinkers 187
5 By the Tree 190
6 The Musicians of the Sun 193
7 The Mountain 196
8 The Firewood Temple 199
9 The Bonfire 202
10 The Ascended Heart 204
11 Matlaxochitl's Song 206
12 The Ashes 209
13 In the Region of the Dead 211
14 On the Coast of the Panuco 216
15 With the Pages 218
16 The Ordaining 222
17 The Commandments 228
18 The Prophecy 230
19 The Raft of Serpents 232
20 The End of the Toltecs 234
21 The Mesquite 237

Bibliography 239