The
Pipils or
Cuzcatlecs are an
indigenous people who live in western
El Salvador, which they called
Cuzcatlan. Their language is called
Nahuat or Pipil, related to the
Toltec people of the
Nahuatl Nation. Evidence from archeology and ethnohistory also supports the southward diffusion thesis, especially that speakers of early
Nahuatl languages migrated from northern Mexican deserts into central Mexico in several waves. However, in general, their
mythology is more closely related to the mythology of the
Maya peoples who are their near neighbors and by oral tradition said to have been adopted by
Ch'orti' and
Poqomam Mayan people during the Pipil in the 9th century CE, led by
Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl.