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Ef temple of the Toltecs; the ruins of an ancient structure at
Tollantzinco were pointed out at the time of the Conquest as those of
this building (see Sahagun, _Hist. de la Nueva Espana_, Lib. X, cap.
29). _coatlaquetzalli_; this edifice, said to have been left incomplete
by Quetzalcoatl, when he forsook Tollan, had pillars in the form of a
serpent, the head at the base, the tail at the top of the pillar. (See
Orozco y Berra, _Hist. Antigua de Mexico_, Tom. III, pp. 30 and 46.) The
structure is mentioned as follows in the _Anales de Cuauhtitlan_:-- _Auh
iniquac nemia Quetzalcoatl quitzintica, quipeuahtica iteocal quimaman
coatlaquetzali ihuan amo quitzonquixti, amo quipantlaz."_ "And when
Quetzalcoatl was living, he began and commenced the temple of his which
is the Coatlaquetzali (Serpent Plumes), and he did not finish it, he did
not fully erect it." _Nacxitl Topiltzin_, "Our Lord the four-footed."
_Nacxitl_ appears to have been the name of Quetzalcoatl, in his position
as lord of the merchants. Compare Sahagun, ubi supra, Lib. I, cap. 19.
2. _Poyauhtecatl_, a vo