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Xelhua

Basic account

Giant survivor of the flood who raised the great pyramid of Cholula.

Account

Xelhua is one of the giants who survived the flood, and he built the Great Pyramid of Cholula to reach the sky. The gods stopped him, which is the part of the story that has caused all the argument.

Motifs

Survivor of the flood
The giant as builder
War against the gods

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What is disputed

Whether the Xelhua story is substantially indigenous or substantially a colonial construction is the central unresolved question, and honest treatments say so.

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Sources

Diego Duran, Historia de las Indias de Nueva Espana (16th c.)

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