Legend has it that when the Mexica/Aztec arrived in the Anahuac region near Lake Texcoco, they were thought to be the least civilized of all the groups. However, the Mexica/Aztec resolved to study, and they took whatever they could from other people, particularly the old Toltecs (whom they seem to have partially confused with the more ancient civilization of Teotihuacan). To the Aztecs, the Toltec were the creators of all culture, and the word "Toltecayotl" meant "culture." The Toltecs and the Quetzalcoatl cult are linked in Aztec tales to the legendary city of Tollan, which they also associate with the more ancient Teotihuacan.
The Aztecs had multiple origin myths because they inherited and merged several traditions with their own older customs. The Five Suns is one of these, and it portrays four great centuries that preceded the present world, each of which ended in disaster and "were named in function of the force or divine element that forcefully put an end to each one of them." Centzon Huitznahua ("Four Hundred Southerners"), Coatlicue's boys, and Coyolxauhqui, her daughter, were born to Coatlicue. She became pregnant with Huitzilopochtli after finding a ball full with feathers and placing it in her waistband. Her other children got suspicious of the father's identity and threatened to murder her. Her children pursued her as she gave birth on Mount Coatepec, but the newborn Huitzilopochtli beat most of his brothers, who went on to become stars. He also murdered Coyolxauhqui, his half-sister, by tearing out her heart with a Xiuhcoatl (a blue snake) and dumping her body down the mountain. The Aztecs were claimed to have been inspired by this to pull the hearts out of their human sacrifices and fling their bodies down the sides of Huitzilopochtli's temple, which portrays the sun chasing away the stars at dawn.
In the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan, our era (Nahui-Ollin), the fifth age, or fifth creation, began. All the gods had gathered, according to legend, to sacrifice themselves and usher in a new era. Despite the fact that the earth and the sun had already been formed, it was only through their sacrifice that the sun was set in motion and time and history could begin. Tecuciztecatl, the most beautiful and powerful of the gods, was meant to sacrifice himself, but he couldn't jump into the flames when the time arrived. Instead, Nanahuatl, the smallest and most modest of the gods, who was also covered in boils, offered himself as a sacrifice and dove into the flames first. With his sacrifice, the sun was set in motion, and time began. Tecuciztecatl, humiliated by Nanahuatl's sacrifice, leapt into the fire and became the moon as well.
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