QUINAMETZIN WERE A RACE OF GIANTS FROM AZTEC MYTHOLOGY

The giants from Aztec mythology, credited with the construction of the pyramid of Cholula and the City of Teotihuacan. They inhabited the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain (Nahui-Quiahuitl). However, they were wiped out prior to the creation of mankind because they did not venerate the gods.0 Chronicles of evangelizers in New Spain and New Spanish historians mention that there were giants in what is now known as Mexico, and they were called quinametzin, a term used in Mesoamerican mythology for people of great height.