AZTEC
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 Teotihuacán
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Ancient Site where Gods are born
It is said that by the time
that the world was created again, it was still night, there was
no light, there were no days. It is said that the gods called
one another, to come to Teotihuacán. They asked for volunteers
to create the light of day and there was one, Tecuciztécatl,
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 Nanahunatzin's turn. Without hesitation he jumped into the
flames and became Tonatiuh, the Sun. Seeying how easy it was,
Tecuciztécatl 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 Quetzalcoátl, who set them in motion and in doing so he created night and day.
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