Enlight Xochitl Tonatiuh They say that this happened a very long time ago. Then in the country of the Aztecs there lived a charming little girl with a beautiful name - Xochitl. In the Aztec language it meant "flower". The gir... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Fourth Sun - Sun of Water (Atonatiuh) Then Quetzalcoatl made Tlaloc's sister, the water goddess Chalchihuitlicue, She Who Wears a Green Stone Skirt, the Sun. Thus began the era of the Fourth Sun, which lasted 312 years. Tezcatlipoca made ... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Third Sun - Sun of the Rain of Fire (Kiauitonatiu) Then the gods made Tlaloc, the god of rain and heavenly fire, the Sun. Thus began the era of the Third Sun. This lasted 364 years. And then Quetzalcoatl made fire rain fall from the sky. Fire fell fro... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Tepoztecatl Once upon a time there was a girl whose parents had a prophetic dream and were very afraid that she would give birth to a child without getting married. Therefore, her mother always watched her and ne... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Tata and Nena During the era of the fourth sun, the Sun of Water, people became evil and stopped worshiping the gods. The gods became angry, and Tlaloc, the god of rain, announced that he intended to destroy the wo... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Creation of the world So, Ometecuhtli and Omesihuatl created four brothers: Red Tezcatlipoca, Black Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli. Six hundred years passed during which the gods did nothing. After this tim... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Birth of Huitzilopochtli In one of the temples on the Coatepec pyramid, which was located on the road to Tula, lived a young woman named Coatlicue, which means “Wearing a Skirt of Snakes.” The first time Coatlicue became preg... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Birth of the earth Quetzalcoatl - light, and Tezcatlipoca - darkness, looked down from the heavens where they live, and saw only water. A giant goddess (Sipaktli) swam in that water, devouring everything around with her... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Birth of the Gods At the highest Thirteenth Heaven, in the Western Paradise, the first gods appeared. There, among the fog, the dual divine principle Ometeotl, the union of Ometecuhtli and Omesihuatl, the male and fema... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Fifth Sun - Son of Movement (Ollitonatiuh) And now again people inhabited the earth, but it was dark because there was no sun yet. Again all the gods gathered together to choose who would be the Sun. But no one wanted to become the Sun, becaus... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight Origin of Agave One day the gods decided that people did not praise and extol them enough. In order to encourage people, teach them to enjoy life on Earth, and strengthen their faith, the gods decided to give them a ... Aztec Myths Myths
Enlight The Legend of Teotihuacan Every single one of them set off: both boys and old people, and girls and ancient old women. Very slowly they moved very carefully, until they came together in Teotihuacan. There they established thei... Aztec Myths Myths
