Legend of the Suns is one of the finest in the Nahuad language

Legend o f the Suns in Aztecs

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The Legend of the Suns stands out as one of the most refined and unadulterated sources of Aztec mythology that has endured through the ages. Remarkably, it represents the sole surviving creation epic in the Nahuatl language. The author's use of the phrase "we today who are Mexica" suggests a connection to Mexico City, and the focus on Tenochtitlan within the text solidifies its classification as a Mexica document.

It is important to note that, despite this association, the narrative doesn't rigidly adhere to official dogma, as evidenced by diverse myth fragments found in various texts, predominantly in Spanish, indicating a degree of tolerated variation. Essentially, the dogma displayed flexibility within certain boundaries.

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While the Legend commences with a declaration in its preamble to elucidate "how the earth was established," this commitment remains unfulfilled.

Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl

However, the Spanish-language "Historia de los mexicanos por sus pinturas" offers an explanation. According to this account, the gods crafted the earth from the body of a reptilian monster, with Tezcatlipoca subsequently transforming into the sun. The people of the first sun era fell victim to jaguars, and the sun itself met destruction.

These people, described as giants, were consumed by Tezcatlipoca in jaguar form after being knocked from the sky by Quetzalcoatl.

Subsequently, Quetzalcoatl assumed the role of the second sun.

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In the era of the second sun, people were swept away by wind and transformed into monkeys, while the sun itself was also displaced. This sun, essentially Quetzalcoatl, was expelled from the sky by Tezcatlipoca, leading to Tlalocanteuctli, the rain god, becoming the third sun. During this period, people perished in a rain of fire initiated by Quetzalcoatl.

Chalchiuhtlicue, the rain god's wife, then ascended as the fourth sun. The fourth sun concluded with a cataclysmic event, symbolized by the "skies coming falling down," resulting in a global flood.

Only a single man and woman survived by seeking refuge in a hollow log, but their disobedience to instructions led to their transformation into dogs after consuming the provided corn and roasted fish. As the floodwaters receded, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl restored the skies to their former position.

New fire ceremony

In the second year post flood, marked as the year 2 Reed, Tezcatlipoca introduced fire, giving rise to the new fire ceremony celebrated every fifty two years. To repopulate the earth, Quetzalcoatl descended to the underworld to retrieve the bones of earlier generations, from which the gods fashioned a new human race.

"The gods created humans as they had been before," symbolizing a cyclical renewal of existence.

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Why this is similar than other mythologies?

The world has been dark since the flood. The gods now bring forth a new sun from the flames o f the "spirit oven" at Teotihuacan, also a moon from the less-hot ashes at the flames� edge. With their own blood the gods nourish the sun so that it can rise into the sky. Immediately prior to the creation of the sun, Tezcatlipoca makes four hundred men and five women; the men are sacrificed to provide the sun with its initial nourishment, but the women survive to play a role later in the story.

After the sun has risen, four hundred Mixcoa are bom, then five more Mixcoa, who make war on the four hundred in order to give the sun a "drink". The god Mixcoatl creates four hundred Chickimecs plus a war party of five to prey on them, "so that the sun will have hearts to eat." Of the four hundred Mixcoa only a few survive the massacre, including Xiuhnel and Mimich.

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Hero CeAcatl seeking revenge

The surviving Chichimecs Xiuhnel and Mimich are joined by the god Mixcoatl (also called Camaxtle), who himself becomes a Chichimec. A pair o f two-headed deer descend from the sky. A two-headed deer descends from the sky. The pair o f deer become women; Xiuhnel engage these dangerous women in sexual intercourse, with the result that Xiuhnel is killed and Mimich is reduced to tears. Mixcoad, by contrast, acquires a sacred bundle, which he carries with him as his charm, pacifying enemies and making conquests.

While on the warpath, he subdues the so called Huitznahua women, one of whom he assaults sexually; this woman, Chimalman, gives birth to the hero CeAcatl. Mixcoatl carries the two headed deer into battle as his charm, thus making easy conquests. His enemies, eventually, seize the deer while he is distracted by one of the five women who had been created ju st before the fifth sun by Mixcoatl this woman gives birth to the hero CeAcatl, i.e., Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl.

Mixcoad, his luck gone, is killed by his three hateful brothers, Apanecad, Zolton, and Cuilton three Mixcoa who survived the massacre after the creation of the fifth sun. Seeking revenge, CeAcatl confronts the three brothers and craftily kills them.