Know this, Traveler, Honored guest. Each time the world has ended, the gods and the goddesses - those we call the Teteo - have created a New World. Such as task is not easy, not even for the Teteo. Quetzalcoatl must travel to the deepest reaches of Mictlan, the Land of the Dead, and there he must recover the bones of a man and a woman, so that he and the Lady who is Cihuacoatl, who is Quilaztli, can create a new race of men and women from them. The journey is hazardous and filled with difficulties, since the Lord of the Dead, Mictlantecuhtli, and his Lady, Mictlancihuatl, do not surrender their property easily or quickly.

And even then, for the Teteo, the task is not ended. The New World must be set in motion; to do that requires Power. To free the Power needed, the Teteo willingly give their lives in sacrifice. This they have done, Traveler, over and over again - for when the Teteo die they are reborn, reborn to die again.