Sing in me, Muse, of Mazacuintli,
the praised man, the hero, true son of…
Sing in me, Muse, of Mazacuintli,
the praised man, the hero,
true son of Thanatos,
the most morbid among gods,
who loves the murderous and abhors light…
"By the gods, your mother had weird taste in men, Mazacuintli," Ajax interrupts.
Demodocus ignores him and continues:
…who came to the woman Anticlea, she who has no fame,
and promised her eternal life through his seed's great deeds.
And so Mazacuintli was born…