‘And then there was one...’

The Aztec god of flowers and dance, named Xochipilli whose name in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs means Prince of Flowers was also called Macuilxochitl which means “five flowers”, which I believe is a possible reference to the five Venus cycles and an esoteric reference to sacred mushrooms. The statue of Xochipilli now sits in the National Mueseum in Mexico City where he can be seen seated upon a temple-like platform I believe is dedicated to the planet Venus and identical to platforms depicted on carved stela at Kaminaljuyu, and Izapa (see mushroomstone.com). Both the statue of Xochipilli and the base upon which he sits are covered with iconography of Venus, mushrooms and other entheogenic plants.
Xochipilli has been called the god of flowers and dance, and it should be noted that sacred mushrooms were also referred to as flowers.
Spanish chronicler Fray Sahagun records that “Whenever there was singing and dancing, mushrooms were to be eaten” (Los Primeros memorials, Sahagun). According to Sahagun...“He who eats many of them mushrooms sees many things which make him afraid, or make him laugh. He flees, hangs himself, or hurls himself from a cliff”.
Sahagun was likely the first to record the use of mushrooms, in his famous Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva Espana, written between 1547 and 1582. Sahagun wrote that the Indians were using mushrooms (Teonanacatl) and that these wild mushrooms could be found in grassy fields and pastures and that the Indians were using mushrooms in religious ceremonies, where it was believed by the Indians to be the flesh of their gods, and that the mushrooms produced powerful visions and voices that were from God.
Sahagun also was the first to identify six psychotropic plants used by the Aztecs (see Xochipilli statue) in rituals, and recorded them in their respective Nahuatl (language of the Aztec) names, ololiuhqui (morning glory), peyotl (peyote), tzintzintlapatl (?), mixitl and tlapatl, both are Datura species, Datura stromonium and Datura innoxia, known to possess strong hallucinogenic qualities. The Datura flowers opens and closes at irregular intervals during the evening, earning the plant the nickname Moonflower (Wikipedia encyclopedia). And the most sacred of all of God’s flowers nanacatl (mushrooms) also could be found on the pine covered slopes in the surrounding mountains after the rains.
Sahagun also described the mushrooms effects and their use in several passages of his famous Historia General de tas Cosas de Nueva Espana, written between the years 1529 and 1590. In book #9 Sahagun makes a reference to mushrooms, and merchants, and their celebration of great feasts, and states that merchant groups known as the pochteca, which translates as priests who lead, were devout followers of Quetzalcoatl, who worshiped Quetzalcoatl under the patron name Yiacatecuhtli or Yacateuctli, Lord of the Vanguard.

Xochipilli was also the god of the sacred “God’s Flesh” mushroom. Apparently acting as a guide to those involved in the ritual of the “Flower Dream” produced by the psychoactive mushroom

Fun fact: In front of the 100 pesos on the right the potrait of Nezahualcoyotl and above his name, is one of his poems in very small print.

Currently, all mexican coins display a different element from the “Piedra del Sol” monolyth.