The legend of the flower of Zempasuchil / Cempasuchil

Xochilt and Huitzilin loved each other since they were children, together they grew up and with their love, every afternoon they went up to the top of the mountain to bring flowers to Tonatiuh, the sun father, he seemed to smile at the offering of the lovers, and they swore love each other, beyond time, beyond distance, beyond death, but one day the war came and the lovers parted, soon the news came that Huitzilin had died in the war, Xóchitl felt his heart turn She was tearing with pain, she climbed the mountain and asked Tonatiuh, the sun father, to unite her forever with his love, the moved sun extended one of its rays and when it touched the young woman ... it turned her into a flower of colors so intense like the sun's rays. Then Huitzilin arrived, in the shape of a hummingbird, and lovingly he settled in the center of the flower, and instantly the flower opened into 20 petals, with an intense and mysterious aroma ... They say that this is how the Zempaxóchitl flower was born, the flower of dead.

Source: Paradigma.