Tradition summary
Ehecatl is the wind, the sweeping breath that goes before the rains and stirs the still, dead air into motion.
Mythic Dream reflection
to dream of him is to feel a soft pressure at your back, the sense that something long stagnant in you is finally free to move and be swept clean.
Literary reflections
These fragments are original Mythic Dream writing, offered as prompts rather than historical source material.
Before the first rain the whole sky holds its breath, and then he comes running low across the maize, and every leaf leans and shivers to let him pass.
He wears a red duck-billed mask through which he blows the four winds, and round temples were raised to him so no corner would ever break the turning of his breath.
Sources & editorial status
Public citations have not yet been attached to this entry. Treat the tradition summary as provisional until it is reviewed against tradition-specific scholarship; the dream reflection is editorial interpretation.
