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Aztec Mythology
Prepared by: Saeed M. Gregorio
 THE AZTECS
Much of what we learn
about the Aztec is from
Were told by priests to
the codices they made
build a beautiful capital
(pre-Columbian book of
city on the spot they saw
pictures/pictograms)
a sign from the gods
(Tenochtitlan)

The Aztec called themselves the

“Mexica” The sign was an eagle perched
on a cactus eating a serpent

It was Huitzilopocthli who directed them

where they saw the eagle and the snake
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 AZTEC MYTHOLOGY
The Aztec worshipped several different gods or
deities and over 100 celestial creatures that were
associated to their spiritual beliefs
Human sacrifice, particularly by offering a
victim’s heart to Tonatiuh, was commonly
practiced, as was bloodletting.

Fun fact: Closely entwined with Aztec religion was the calendar, on
which the elaborate round of rituals and ceremonies that occupied the
priests were made. It has a solar year of 365 days and sacred year of
260 days.
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 THE FIFTH SUN
The creator couple Tonacacihuatl and Tonacateuctli (Ometeotl)
gave birth to four sons.

After 600 years, the sons began to create the universe.

After the world was created, the gods gave light to humans
(one of the gods must leap into the fire)

Each subsequent sun was created by the sacrifice of at

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 Tezcatlipoca –
god of night,
sorcery, and patron
god of kings and
warrior
NORTH Xipe Totec/Xipetotec
– life-death-rebirth
deity
Quetzalcoatl – god of
EAST wind, air, and learning

WEST Huitzilopochtli – god

THE FOUR TEZCATLIPOCAS of sun and war
(central deity) SOUTH16
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Continue the creation story by creating a minimalist timeline in a ½-
sized Manila paper. You will be rated based on the criteria provided:
Content – 15, Organization – 10, Grammar/Mechanics - 5

Group 1 - The First Sun

Group 2 - The Second Sun
Group 3 - The Third Sun
Group 4 - The Fourth Sun
Group 5 - The Fifth Sun
 THE FIRST SUN
The first god to sacrifice himself was
Tezcatlipoca, who leapt into the fire and
became the First Sun, called "4 Tiger". This
period was inhabited by giants who ate only
acorns; and it came to an end when the giants
were devoured by jaguars. The world lasted
676 years, or 13 52-year cycles according to
the pan-Mesoamerican calendar.
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 THE SECOND SUN
"4-Wind" sun, was governed by Quetzalcoatl (also
known as the White Tezcatlipoca), and the earth was
populated by humans who ate only piñon nuts.
Tezcatlipoca wanted to be sun, and turned himself
into a tiger and threw Quetzalcoatl off his throne.
This world came to an end through catastrophic
hurricanes and floods. The few survivors fled to the
top of the trees and were transformed into monkeys.
This world also lasted 676 years.
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 THE THIRD SUN
"4-Rain" Sun, was dominated by water: its ruling
deity was the rain god Tlaloc and its people ate seeds
that grew in the water. This world came to an end
when the god Quetzalcoatl made it rain fire and
ashes. The survivors became turkeys, butterflies or
dogs. Turkeys are called "pipil-pipil" in the Aztec
language, meaning "child" or "prince". This world
ended in 7 cycles, or 364 years.

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 THE FOURTH SUN
"4-Water" sun, was governed by the
goddess Chalchiuthlicue, sister and wife
of Tlaloc. The people ate maize. A great
flood marked the end of this world and
all the people were transformed into
fish. 4 Water lasted for 676 years.

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 THE FIFTH SUN
(4-Movement) was ruled by Tonatiuh, the sun god.
This fifth sun was characterized by the sign Ollin,
which means movement. According to Aztec beliefs,
this indicated that this world would come to an end
through earthquakes. The Aztecs considered
themselves “the People of the Sun” and therefore
their duty was to nourish the Sun god through blood
offerings and sacrifices. Failure to do this would
cause the end of their world and the disappearance of
the sun from the sky.
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1. Huitzilopochtli –
‘The Hummingbird of
the South’
Huitzilopochtli was the father of the
Aztecs and the supreme god for the
Méxica. His nagual or animal spirit was
the eagle. Unlike many other Aztec
deities, Huitzilopochtli was intrinsically a
Mexica deity with no clear equivalent in
earlier Mesoamerican cultures.

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 2. Tezcatlipoca – ‘The
Smoking Mirror’
Huitzilopochtli’s rival as the most
important Aztec god was Tezcatlipoca:
god of the nocturnal sky, of ancestral
memory, and of time. His nagual was the
jaguar. Tezcatlipoca was one of the most
important gods in post-classic
Mesoamerican culture and the supreme
deity for the Toltecs – Nahua-speaking
warriors from the north.

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 3. Quetzalcoatl – ‘The
Feathered Serpent’
Tezcatlipoca’s brother Quetzalcoatl was
the god of winds and rain, intelligence
and self-reflection.
His nagual was a mix of bird and
rattlesnake, his name combining the
Nahuatl words for quetzal (“the emerald
plumed bird”) and coatl (“serpent”). As
the patron of science and learning,
Quetzalcoatl invented the calendar and
books. He was also identified with the
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 4. Coatlicue – ‘The
Serpent Skirt’
Venerated as the “mother of gods and
mortals”, Coatlicue was the feminine god
who gave birth to the stars and moon.
Her face was made up of two fanged
serpents, her skirt of interwoven snakes
and she wore a necklace of hands, hearts
and a skull.

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 5. Tonatiuh – ‘The
Turquoise Lord’
Tonatiuh was the sun god, depicted as a
symbolic sun disk, or sometimes as a
squatting man with a disk on his back.
Tonatiuh was a nourishing deity who
required sacrificial blood to provide
warmth to the people. He was also the
patron of warriors.

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 6. Tlaloc – ‘He Who
Makes Things Sprout’
He was associated with any rain-related
meteorological events, such as storms,
floods, lightning, ice and snow. He also
ruled the other-worldly paradise of
Thalocan, which hosted the victims of
floods, storms and diseases such as
leprosy.

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7. Chalchiuhtlicue –
‘She Who Wears a
Green Skirt’
The wife (or sometimes sister) of Tlaloc,
Chalchiuhtlicue was the Aztec goddess of
running water and all aquatic elements.
Like other water deities, Chalchiuhtlicue
was often associated with serpents. She
was mostly depicted wearing a green or
blue skirt from which flows a stream of
water.

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 8. Xipe Totec – ‘Our
Lord the Flayed One’
The Aztec god of agricultural fertility,
Xipe Totec was usually represented
wearing a flayed human skin symbolising
the death of the old and the growth of
new vegetation. The gruesome-sounding
Nahuatl moniker originated from the
legend where the Aztec god flayed his
own skin to feed humanity.

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Mythic Interpretation
• Five was a sacred number based on the five directions (center was
the star cluster known as Pleiades)
• “the world was known to be safe from one destruction at any point
within the calendar round; it was only at the expiration on one set,
before the succeeding one began, that the world was vulnerable”
• Great deal of Aztec mythology revolves around the role and worship
of the sun
• The best way to satisfy the deity was with the most precious
substance in the universe: human blood
• Sacrifice was an important theme in the Aztec’s mythology

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