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Photo of WTL (as later day Don Quixote?) taken in front of a windmill (molino de viento) in the Campo de Criptana, La Mancha, Spain, on WTL's camera by the molinero (actually by the guard, not the miller, at the windmills).

In Náhnatl, "xochitl" means "flower. Here you see an Aztec pictograph of Xochipili (877-916), the Toltec queen, who was the mother of Topiltzin (Topiltzin-Quetzalcóatl), the last priest-ruler-king of the Toltecs at Tula. She led an all-woman batallion in the battle against Tezcalipoca. Topittzin escaped and Xochipili was killed in the battle.