The Legend of the Five Suns
Brief description of the Myth:
Every now and then in time, the sun begins to die and one of the gods has to be sacrificed to save the world and become the new sun. When this happens the whole world is destroyed and everything starts over from scratch.
Description of the Suns:
Sun 1: “The Four Waters”
- It was created by Huitzilopochtli
- Huitzilopochtli created man from ashes and dust
- When the sun was about to die, the lesser god sacrificed himself
- The effect of this was a massive flood killing everything on the planet and allowing the world to restart itself
- The flood is believed to have last 1 cycle on the Aztec calendar, which is equal to 52 years.
Sun 2: “The Four Jaguar”
- People of this age are believed to be giants
- Another lesser god sacrificed itself and become the new sun
- The effect was that the lesser god fell from the sky and set the whole earth on fire
- The people that survived were thrust into darkness for the new sun was blotted out by all the ash and smoke
- There were Jaguas who appeared from the darkness and killed everything, hence the four jaguars, and the world was restarted once again
Sun 3: “The Four Rain”
- Very little is known about this sun as the Aztecs never really spoke about it.
- When the sun was changed, a huge volcanic eruption happened somewhere in the world and later on caused it to rain fire and gravel once again restarting the earth
Sun 4: ”The four Winds”
- Also one that was not spoken about a lot amongst the society
- Age which was believed to be where the Aztecs moved down from their ancestral lands to the north
- The world was ended by a giant hurricane
Sun 5: “The Four Movement”
- Current era
- Believes that the world ends in 2012
- The fourth god who sacrificed himself was believed to be weak and ill, so the Aztecs believe that the sun is also weak and ill.
- In order to keep the sun in the sky, they must sacrifice human blood and if they don, the god would 1inflict pain and hardship upon them.
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