ABSTRACT
It was not Huitzilopochtli whom the myths presented as Quetzalcoatl's conceptual enemy, or at any rate not in the form of Huitzilopochdi the rising sun, but in that of the twilight and nocturnal sun, Tezcadipoca, the Smoking Mirror or Shining Mirror. In Sahagun's work people find how Tezcadipoca used magic tricks to make Quetzalcoatl leave Tula, the Toltec capital, thus bringing about its downfall. But above all they learn that Tezcadipoca was the all-powerful creator of heaven and earth, that he was omniscient and omnipresent and that, on earth, he stirred up wars and hated, exhorting people to discord, hence his name Nevoc Yaotl, meaning Sower of Discord. Amalia remained unfinished until 1855. As people has seen, Asturias found his model for the black man in Juan Manuel de Rosas.
