Editing Xōchipilli (section)

==Associations==
As the patron of writing and painting, he was called '''{{lang|nci|Chicomexōchitl|italic=no}}''' the "Seven-flower", but he could also be referred to as '''{{lang|nci|Macuilxōchitl|italic=no}}''' "Five-flower". He was the patron of the game [[patolli]]. He is frequently paired with [[Xochiquetzal]], who is seen as his female counterpart.<ref name="Thompson1932">{{cite journal |last1=Thompson |first1=J. Eric |title=The Humming Bird and the Flower |journal=The Maya Society Quarterly |date=1932 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=120–122}}</ref> {{lang|nci|Xōchipilli|italic=no}} has also been interpreted as the patron of both [[homosexuality|homosexuals]] and [[male prostitution|male prostitutes]], a role possibly resulting from his being absorbed from the [[Toltec]] civilization.<ref name = "Castillo"> Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Library Reprints, 2008. ISBN 1-4227-8345-6; Trexler, Richard C. Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. Paperback ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8014-8482-0; [[Keen, Benjamin]]. The Aztec Image in Western Thought. Paperback ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8135-1572-6; Idell, Albert. The Bernal Diaz Chronicles. New York: Doubleday, 1956. </ref><ref name="Mendelssohn">Mendelssohn, Kurt. ''Riddle of the Pyramids.'' Paperback ed. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 1986. ISBN 0-500-27388-X; Estrada, Gabriel S. "An Aztec Two-Spirit Cosmology: Re-sounding Nahuatl Masculinities, Elders, Femininities, and Youth." ''Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.'' 24:2 & 3 (2003).</ref><ref name="Taylor">Taylor, Clark L. "Legends, Syncretism, and Continuing Echoes of Homosexuality from Pre-Columbian and Colonial Mexico." In ''Male Homosexuality in Central and South America.'' Paperback ed. Stephen O. Murray, ed. San Francisco: Instituto Obregon, 1987. ISBN 0-942777-58-1</ref><ref name="Greenberg1990p165">{{cite book |last=Greenberg |first=David |title=The Construction of Homosexuality. |page=[https://archive.org/details/constructionofho00gree_0/page/165 165] |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=1990 |isbn=0-226-30628-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/constructionofho00gree_0/page/165 }}</ref>

He, among other gods, is depicted wearing a talisman known as an {{lang|nci|oyohualli}}, which was a teardrop-shaped pendant crafted out of mother-of-pearl.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/artefacts/personified-knives |title=Personified knives |last1=Aguirre |first1=Alejandra |last2=Chávez |first2=Ximena |publisher=mexicolore.co.uk |date=27 March 2011 |access-date=29 January 2017}}</ref>