Key Info

- Giants who populated the world during the Sun of Rain era

- They were punished and their cilivization ended because they did not venerate the gods

Brief Bio

In Mesoamerican mythology, particularly within Nahua (Aztec) traditions, the Quinametzin were a race of giants believed to have inhabited the world during the "Sun of Rain" era. They are often associated with the construction of significant structures like the pyramid of Cholula and the city of Teotihuacan.

Notable Quinametzin: 

Cuauhtemoc, Izcoalt, Izcaqlli and Tenexuche: the four giants who supported the sky at the beginning of the Fifth Sun

Mixtecatl: a giant founder of Mixteca

Otomitl: a giant founder of Xilotepec, Tollan, Otompan

Tenoch: a giant founder of Tenochtitlan

Ulmecatl: a giant founder of Cuetlachcoapan, Tontonihuacan, Huitzilapan

Xelhua: a giant founder of Cuauquechollan, Itzocan, Epatlan, Teopantlan, Tehuacan, Cuzcatlan Teotitlan and the great Pyramid of Cholula

Xicalancatl: a giant founder of Xicallancatl