Chalchiuhtlicue
Chalchiuhtlicue, whose name translates to "She of the Jade Skirt," was an important deity in Aztec mythology.
In one Aztec creation myth, Chalchiuhtlicue is credited with bringing about a great flood that reshaped the world.
Together, they governed the cycles of rain and drought, critical elements for the agrarian Aztec society.
The Aztecs conducted these rituals to ensure plentiful rains and fertile lands.
Pleiades and Orion
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli: In Aztec mythology, Orion's belt was associated with Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl, one of their important gods.
Primordial State: In Aztec mythology, the earlier gods, including the Earth goddess Coatlicue and her offspring, represented older, more chaotic forces.
Result: The dominance of Huitzilopochtli symbolized the establishment of cosmic order and the importance of the sun in Aztec cosmology.
The 5 Suns
In Aztec mythology, the creation and destruction of the world are explained through the concept of the "Five Suns." Each sun represents an era or age in which the gods created and then destroyed the world in various cataclysmic events.
Nahui-Ocelotl, also known as the "Jaguar Sun" or the "First Sun," is the first era in Aztec mythology.
Tezcatlipoca is one of the central deities in Aztec mythology.
The myth of Nahui-Ocelotl emphasizes the Aztec belief in the cyclical nature of creation and destruction, with each sun or era ending in a dramatic, transformative event.
Nahui-Quiahuitl, also known as the "Rain Sun" or the "Third Sun," is one of the ages in Aztec mythology.
Tlaloc was a prominent deity in Aztec mythology, associated with agriculture and sustenance through rain.
Significance: This era's end by water is a significant representation of the destructive power of water in Aztec mythology.
This belief underpinned the Aztec practice of human sacrifice.
Aztec: The Fourth Sun, a world destroyed by floods.
Aztec: Tlaloc (rain god), Chalchiuhtlicue (goddess of rivers).
Aztec: Flood associated with the end of the Fourth Sun.
Aztec Mythology (Five Suns): The Aztecs believed in five creation cycles, each ending in a cataclysm.
Aztec Fourth Sun: Ending in cold and ice before the flood cycle.
Aztec: People of previous Suns had different forms, like the monkey transformation.
Why much of Ancient American history is lost
1519-1521: Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire.
Consequence: Collapse of the Aztec civilization, massive population decline, and forced labor systems.
Estimate: The population of the Aztec Empire decreased from about 25 million to less than 2 million.
Consequence: Similar devastation as seen with the Aztecs, including forced labor (encomienda and mita systems) and cultural erasure.
Great Flood Stories World wide
Anubis
Civilized humanity emerged around 70,000 years ago
Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs: Matias explores the civilizations of the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs, highlighting their architectural achievements, cultural practices, and spiritual beliefs.
The 5 Suns - Aztecs
Chronos
Zeus
American Civilizations: He extends this influence to ancient American civilizations, such as the Aztecs and the Maya.
Mummification
Donnelly's text provides details on how the Egyptians and Aztecs performed mummification by extracting the bowels and replacing them with aromatic substances.
The Colonies of Atlantis
The Aztec religion had many parallels with Old World beliefs, including confession, absolution, and baptism.
The Aztecs progressed through three writing stages: picture-writing, symbolic, and phonetic.
The Pyramid, the cross and the Garden of Eden
The Aztecs also have legends of a paradisiacal island with a central mountain and radiating rivers.
Genesis Contains a History of Atlantis
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
The Annals of the CakchiQuels
The occurrence of the Aztec name of the City of Light, Tulan (properly, Tonatlan), in these accounts, as they were rehearsed by the early converted natives, naturally misled historians to adopt the notion that these divine culture heroes were “Toltecs,” and even in the modern writings of the Abbé Brasseur (de Bourbourg), of M.
The Toltecs were a pre-Aztec civilization in central Mexico, and their capital, Tollan, is thought to have been a major urban center and a place of cultural significance.
The same blending of their most ancient legends with those borrowed from the Aztecs, recurs in the records of the pure Mayas of Yucatan.
There is a slight admixture of Aztec words in Cakchiquel.
But, putting all these together, they form but a very small fraction of the language, not more than we can readily understand they would necessarily have borrowed from a nation with whom, as was the case with the Aztecs, they were in constant commercial communication for centuries.
The Pipils, their immediate neighbors to the South, cultivating the hot and fertile slope which descends from the central plateau to the Pacific Ocean, were an Aztec race of pure blood, speaking a dialect of Nahuatl, very little different from that heard in the schools of classic Tezcuco.
Like the Mayas and Aztecs, they were a race of builders, skillful masons and stone-cutters, erecting large edifices, pyramids, temples, and defensive works, with solid walls of stone laid in a firm mortar.
In a study of this subject, published during the present year, I have set forth their various terms employed in this branch of knowledge, and compared their system with that in use among the Mayas and the Aztecs.
They all indicate loans from the Aztec mythology.
In the Cakchiquel Annals, as in the Popol Vuh and the Maya Chronicles, we hear of the city of the sun god, Tulan or Tonatlan, as the place of their origin, of the land Zuiva and of the Nonoalcos, names belonging to the oldest cycles of myths in the religion of the Aztecs.
The Deluge Legends of America
The Destruction of Atlantis
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
Atlantis – Taurid meteor shower
Many people on your planet today imagine Atlantis with Grecian architecture due to ancient stories from Egypt passed to Greece, but the closest representation of Atlantean architecture is Aztec architecture: large stone blocks and pyramids like those in Central and South America.
Venus
Colonization
Hernán Cortés in MexicoHis conquest of the Aztec Empire led to significant destruction and subjugation of the local population.
HuitzilopochtliIn the Aztec culture, Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun and war, was believed to require human sacrifices to ensure the sun would rise each day.
TezcatlipocaAnother Aztec deity, Tezcatlipoca was a god of the night sky and of ancestral memory, among other things, and was also associated with human sacrifices, including children in some specific rituals.
In Aztec mythology, the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl was considered a benevolent deity associated with wisdom and life.
The Aztecs, for example, adorned their leaders with snake symbols to signify divine connections.
The closest representation of Atlantean architecture is Aztec architecture; large stone blocks and pyramids found in Central and South America resemble the structures you would have seen in Atlantean times.
The Aztec architecture that remains is the closest remnant to the idea of Atlantean architecture that still exists on your planet now.
Huitzilopochtli: The Aztec god of the Sun and war in Aztec mythology.
The Aztec legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than now, and his grateful warmth rendered clothing unnecessary."
Kukulkan, also known as Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology, is a feathered serpent deity in Mesoamerican religion.
Kukulkan played a significant role in the religious beliefs of various Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya and the Aztecs.
The Chronicle of Akakor
The British explorer Niven estimates that the first urban settlements by the ancestors of the Aztecs were founded around 3500 B.C.