THE FIVE SUNS, Aztec Legend
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
THE FIVE SUNS, Aztec Legend
The five Suns
1. Tezcatlipoca creates first Sun. Becomes big sun; Quetzlcoatl knocks him into darkness. Creates world of giant people eating acorns; Jaguars eat giant first people, only bones remain.
2. Quetzlcoatl creates second Sun, of wind. Tezcatlipoca comes with jaguar to destroy work of windspirit. Houses, trees, all blown away by wind, even sun. People turned into monkeys, nothing left.
3. Tezcatlipoca?€™s turn again. Chose Tlaloc, spirit of rain, to rule. People eating seeds like corn, turn into turkeys. Feathers turn dark from smoke. Quetzl sends rain of fire to destroy brother?€™s work. Wipes out third creation of rain.
4. Quetzlcoatl?€™s turn to create fourth world. Chose spirit of waters to rule, Chalchiuhtlicue. Rained so hard and long that people turn into fish.
5. THE FIVE SUN (Quetzlcoatl and Tezcatlipoca RECONCILIATION):
It is said that by the time that the sun was created again, it was still night, there was no light, there were no days. It is said that the gods Quetzlcoatl and Tezcatlipoca called one another, to come to Teotihuac??n. They asked for volunteers to create the light of day and there was one, Tecucizt?©catl, who said: Oh Gods that will be me!. Since no other volunteer reported, they chose Nanahuantzin to assist him.
The first thing they did was creating a fireplace and lighting the fire. Then for four days they meditated and made offerings. Then on the fifth day it was Tecucizcuatl's time to jump into ther fire, but he became frightened and stepped back. He made four attempts, but still couldn't find the courage to jump into the flames. Now it was Nanahuantzin's turn. Without hesitation he jumped into the flames and became Tonatiuh, the Sun.
Seeying how easy it was, Tecucizt?©catl followed and became Meztli, the Moon, which looked exactly like the Sun. The gods wondered if this should be this way and they agreed that things should be altered a little bit. So one of them, took a rabbit and placed it on the face of the Moon, in order to make it shine less. If you look closely at the moon, you can still see the rabbit on it's surface.
So light was created, but there was one other problem: Both the sun and the moon, stayed at the exact location as where they had come up, they didn't move. This time it was Quetzalco??tl, who set them in motion and in doing so he created night and day.
1. Tezcatlipoca creates first Sun. Becomes big sun; Quetzlcoatl knocks him into darkness. Creates world of giant people eating acorns; Jaguars eat giant first people, only bones remain.
2. Quetzlcoatl creates second Sun, of wind. Tezcatlipoca comes with jaguar to destroy work of windspirit. Houses, trees, all blown away by wind, even sun. People turned into monkeys, nothing left.
3. Tezcatlipoca?€™s turn again. Chose Tlaloc, spirit of rain, to rule. People eating seeds like corn, turn into turkeys. Feathers turn dark from smoke. Quetzl sends rain of fire to destroy brother?€™s work. Wipes out third creation of rain.
4. Quetzlcoatl?€™s turn to create fourth world. Chose spirit of waters to rule, Chalchiuhtlicue. Rained so hard and long that people turn into fish.
5. THE FIVE SUN (Quetzlcoatl and Tezcatlipoca RECONCILIATION):
It is said that by the time that the sun was created again, it was still night, there was no light, there were no days. It is said that the gods Quetzlcoatl and Tezcatlipoca called one another, to come to Teotihuac??n. They asked for volunteers to create the light of day and there was one, Tecucizt?©catl, who said: Oh Gods that will be me!. Since no other volunteer reported, they chose Nanahuantzin to assist him.
The first thing they did was creating a fireplace and lighting the fire. Then for four days they meditated and made offerings. Then on the fifth day it was Tecucizcuatl's time to jump into ther fire, but he became frightened and stepped back. He made four attempts, but still couldn't find the courage to jump into the flames. Now it was Nanahuantzin's turn. Without hesitation he jumped into the flames and became Tonatiuh, the Sun.
Seeying how easy it was, Tecucizt?©catl followed and became Meztli, the Moon, which looked exactly like the Sun. The gods wondered if this should be this way and they agreed that things should be altered a little bit. So one of them, took a rabbit and placed it on the face of the Moon, in order to make it shine less. If you look closely at the moon, you can still see the rabbit on it's surface.
So light was created, but there was one other problem: Both the sun and the moon, stayed at the exact location as where they had come up, they didn't move. This time it was Quetzalco??tl, who set them in motion and in doing so he created night and day.
Vita brevis, ars longa, Occasio praeceps, Experimentum periculosum, Iudicium difficile.
-
- Posts: 44
- Joined: 30.08.2005
- With us: 19 years 1 month
- Location: Urbandale, IA
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 217
- Joined: 07.09.2005
- With us: 19 years
- Location: Everywhere, anywhere & nowhere, always and never.
- Contact:
I heard of some other legend involving a rabbit on the moon. I think it was Japanese. It said that there was a rabbit in the moon and whenever a traveller was lost it would come to help that traveller find his way home. Interesting how there's an aztec legend with a rabbit in the moon and a Japanese legend with a rabbit in the moon too.
Pi does not equal 3.14159265, it equals "yum!"
A world without Monty Python, gnomes, news crews that make a big deal out of a celebrity breathing, Star Trek, & Coca-Cola? That is impossible! IMPOSSIBLE!
A world without Monty Python, gnomes, news crews that make a big deal out of a celebrity breathing, Star Trek, & Coca-Cola? That is impossible! IMPOSSIBLE!
-
- Posts: 44
- Joined: 30.08.2005
- With us: 19 years 1 month
- Location: Urbandale, IA
- Contact:
-
- Posts: 420
- Joined: 21.02.2002
- With us: 22 years 7 months
- Location: Darmstadt, Germany.
This Aztec series is quite fun! I think that rabbit is supposed to be 'buck-toothed', but maybe there was a sabre-toothed rabbit (I saw one in a Monty Python film once! ). The Aztec drawings are very stylised, but this rabbit/squirrel seems to have tiger strips. Maybe it's that thing from 'The Relic'.
The Australian aborigines see a rabbit in the moon. I think civilisations generally close to the equator or south of it see this because the moon is 'sideways' or 'upside-down' to the European view, which sees a face.
Spiff.
The Australian aborigines see a rabbit in the moon. I think civilisations generally close to the equator or south of it see this because the moon is 'sideways' or 'upside-down' to the European view, which sees a face.
Spiff.
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
That this object is not a bird, nor a plane, nor a squirrel, nor a sabre-toothed!!!!!
it is super......
......it is "el conejo de los volcanes", "zacatuche" or "teporingo", endemic rabbit of M?©xico.
"el conejo de los volcanes" ---> "rabbit of the volcano":
Popocatepetl and Iztacc?huatl volcano:
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7281
it is super......
......it is "el conejo de los volcanes", "zacatuche" or "teporingo", endemic rabbit of M?©xico.
"el conejo de los volcanes" ---> "rabbit of the volcano":
Popocatepetl and Iztacc?huatl volcano:
http://celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7281
Vita brevis, ars longa, Occasio praeceps, Experimentum periculosum, Iudicium difficile.
-
- Posts: 44
- Joined: 30.08.2005
- With us: 19 years 1 month
- Location: Urbandale, IA
- Contact:
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
-
- Posts: 420
- Joined: 21.02.2002
- With us: 22 years 7 months
- Location: Darmstadt, Germany.
-
Topic authorJuan Marino
- Posts: 87
- Joined: 08.01.2005
- With us: 19 years 8 months
Spaceman Spiff wrote:Yueechh! Now this topic is getting really 'Purgatory!'
..... YES, BUT i give my AZTEC BUCK-TOOTHED, here-->
Code: Select all
AltSurface "Aztec Moon-Rabbit" "Sol/earth/moon"
{
Texture "moon.jpg"
OverlayTexture "moonrabit2qu.png"
}
Vita brevis, ars longa, Occasio praeceps, Experimentum periculosum, Iudicium difficile.