The Fifth Sun

Ometeotl, the god of duality had four children, the cardinal gods.
Quetzalcoatl, the god of light, on the West. Huitzilopochtli, the god
of war, on the South. Xipe Totec, the god of gold and farming, on
the East, and Tezcatlipoca, the god of, night, and sorcery, on the
North. They created the universe and the Sun, but to do this, one of
the four cardinal gods would have to sacrifice themself into a fire.

The first God elected was Tezcatlipoca, he jumped into the fire and
created the First Sun. Quetzalcoatl was dissatisfied and decided to knocked out of the sky.
Thus, there was no Sun.

Quetzalcoatl jumped into the fire and became the Second Sun. However, Tezcatlipoca was
angry and transformed himself into a tiger to attack Quetzalcoatl, knocking him out of the
sky. Quetzalcoatl was sad and decided to wipe all humans from Earth with floods and
hurricanes.

The Third Sun was created with Tlaloc. However, Tezcatlipoca was
jealous, and he seduced and kidnaped Tlaloc’s wife. Tlaloc was
depressed and refused to provide water to people on the Earth, as
a consequence a great drought appears. He ignored all prayers for
rain. One day, he became angry and rained fire on the Earth instead
of water, extinguishing human race.

Chalchiuhtlicue, Tlaloc’s new wife, became the Fourth Sun.

However, Tezcatlipoca said that she was faking to
humans. Chalchiuhtlicue was devastated and she cried blood for 52
years. The Earth was flooded with blood and humans were forced to transform into fish to
survive.

After that, all gods gathered to decide who would become the next
Sun. None of the cardinal gods wanted to sacrifice, so two of
the lesser gods, Nanauatzin and Tecciztécatl jumped into the fire.
Worried about having two Suns, the other gods decided to change
one into the Moon.
NAME:____________________________________ DATE:__________________________

Answer the questions with the information from the text “The fifth sun”.

1. According to the Aztecs, how many sun are in the story? ______________________

2. Who are the cardinal gods? ______________________________________________

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3. Who is the villain in the story? ____________________________________________

4. What did happen to humans with the fourth sun? ____________________________

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5. Who are the gods from the Sun and the Moon? _______________________________

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6. What kind of events did Aztecs try to explain?

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7. Complete the sentences with ordinal numbers:

a) Quetzalcoatl was the _______ god.

b) Nanauatzin was the _______ god.

c) Tezcatlipoca was the _______ god.

d) Tlaloc was the _______ god.

e) Chalchiuhtlicue was the _______ god.

NAME:____________________________________ DATE:__________________________

The Cosmic Egg

Chinese myth
In the beginning there was a huge egg that include all the opposites: hot and cold, light and
dark, wet and dry. Also, inside was Phan Ku, a giant who was covered in hair. He had horns
on his head and tusks came out from his mouth. Phan Ku broke out of the egg and separated
the opposites through all the world. Every day he carved out the mountains and oceans with
his chisel and mallet. And every day, for 18,000 years he grew three meters taller. When
Phan Ku died his skull became the sky, his breath the wind, his flesh the soil, and his blood
in rivers. The fleas in his hair became human beings."

WORD BANK

Huge: enorme Tusks: colmillos Mallet: mazo

Inside: dentro de Broke out: salió Grew: crecía
Horns: cuernos Chisel: cincel Fleas: pulgas

Myth title
Where is the myth
from?
What things are
created in the myth?

How are things

created?