WEWEPAHTLI: Ketzalxiuhteotl & Tlawayotl

The medicine system of the Tetzkatlipoka Tradition is called WEWEPATHLI, meaning Great Medicine. It encompasses sophisticated health maintenance practices and a healing philosophy developed over more than 9,000 years.

It includes all forms of traditional medicine developed through experience, observation and continuous practice since ancient times. Everything is medicine: food, art, laughter, color, sound. And WEWEPAHTLI also includes more commonly understood therapies that employ herbs, energy work, therapeutic massage, talk therapy, exercise and TEMATZKAL (sweat lodge).

For example, two systems of healing are KETZALXIUHTEOTL (Beautiful Brilliant Energy, Ketzal Energy Work) and TLAWAYOTL (The Heart Generates the Earth).

The KETZALXIUHTEOTL energy work system is maintained and cared for by the TZATZOEHETZIN family. In the same way, the TLAWAYOTL system is the responsibility of another family in the Tradition. It was through their teaching that Tzen learned this system.

Tzenwaxolokwauhtli Tzatzoehetzin is the Carrier of the Medicine System in this Tradition and foremost public teacher and practitioner of Ketzal Energy Work.