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The yellow flower blossoms
she is our mother, Tonan
with the god's mask of thigh skin
In Tamoanchan you began

The yellow flower is your flower
she is our mother
with the god's mask of thigh skin
In Tamoanchan you began

The white flower blossoms
she is our mother
with the god's mask of thigh skin
In Tamoanchan you began

The white flower is your flower
she is our mother
with the god's mask of thigh skin
In Tamoanchan you began
The goddess on the sacred cactus is our mother
Itzpapalotl, the Obsidian Butterfly
Let us find her in the nine thorny plains
She'll be feeding on deer hearts
she is our mother the earth goddess, Tlaltecuhtli

With new chalk, with new feathers , she is covered
In the four quarters darts lie in fragments
A deer is what she has become

There on the desert plain they come to find you
they, Xiuhnel and Mimich


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