Mixcoatl
the cloud serpent, first hunter of the sky
airMixcoatl is the cloud-serpent seen in the streaming Milky Way, god of the hunt and the first to draw fire from wood; to dream of him is to follow a single bright track across the dark, patient and unhurried, trusting that the path itself will bring you home.
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With his bow of clouds and his darts he brings down the wandering deer of the night, and the four hundred children of the north follow behind him in a cold, quiet host.
He was the first to turn the fire-drill in dry wood and spin a flame from nothing, and the long smear of stars overhead is the trail of his hunting still.
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