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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Enlight
Enlight Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl One Aztec emperor had a daughter named Iztaccihuatl. And the emperor had one very strong and handsome warrior, whose name was Popocatepetl. One day, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl met by chance, saw ea... Aztec Myths Myths Enlight
Enlight The first sun is the Sun of the Tiger (Ocelotonatiuh) The god of the night sky, Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror, was the first to become the Sun. Thus began the first era. Other gods created giant people who did not work or cultivate the land, but only ... Aztec Myths Myths Enlight
Enlight The Legend of the Origin of the Aztecs According to legend, the Aztecs once lived in a place (on an island) called Aztlan (“Place of the Herons”, “Place where the herons live”) - hence the name “Aztecs” (literally “people of Aztlan”). Furt... Aztec Myths Myths Enlight
Enlight Coyote and Possum The cunning prankster Coyote stood by the hill as if he was propping it up. He moaned pitifully to a passing Possum that for many hours in a row he had been forced to hold the hill so that it would no... Aztec Myths Myths Enlight
