The Origin of the Maguey Plant (Pulque and the Goddess Mayahuel)
Long before the sun rose upon the fifth age of the world, when the gods still walked among mortals and the stars sang across the firmament, there lived a young goddess of the heavens named Mayahuel. Her beauty was radiant like the morning star. Her laughter, they said, rippled through the sky like the sound of water over smooth stone.