Axolotol In Aztec Mythology And Its Inspiration

As de Montellano explains: 'The Aztecs ate in every practical sense, each living thing that walked, swam, flew or crawled, including… a colossal grouping of fish, frogs… fish eggs, water bugs, and their eggs, and dragonfly hatchlings, all procured from the lakes in the Basin [of Mexico]' AND axolotls. 'In view of the Spanish – who considered the water of the lake dangerous and disease-ridden, and kept on exhausting it – essentially the back of these lakes can be seen today at Xochimilco, on the southern edges of Mexico City. The human tenants of Xochimilco confirm today the standard procedures used to cook axolotls: 'Any hairs are managed off, the organs are taken out, they're then washed, salt is added, with bits of dried chilies. They're fanned out two by two on corn leaves and are steam cooked' (Castelló Ytúrbide). We know these corn-wrapped food sources as tamales. 

Book XI of the Florentine Codex recollects a short entry for the axolotl, alongside a concealing depiction (crucial pic, above). Sahagún, who organized the Codex, reveals to us that the Aztecs torched through tamales stacked with 'extraordinary, fine, edible, exquisite… ' axolotls, yellow chilies, and diverse food sources during the yearly festival of Izcalli, focused on presumably the most prepared god in Mesoamerica, Huehueteotl/Xiuhtecuhtli, the Old Lord of Fire. What is less eminent is that the Codex in like manner prompts us, in Book I, Chapter 13, that when the Aztecs made commitments to this godlikeness, kids were allowed and asked unequivocally to throw axolotls and other little creatures that they had gotten into the hearth at home, possibly in a meaningful attestation of the axolotl's weighty powers. Izcalli was, taking everything into account, a celebration of improvement and indeed birth. 

In the Florentine Codex, the axolotl appears nearby two other heavenly food things, maize and the maguey (century plant). By and large, all of the three expect a symbolic part in the legend of the development of the fifth 'sun' or world period. Book VII of the Codex relates the story of how Xolotl, an image of Venus and evening star twin kin of producer god Quetzalcóatl, to do whatever it takes not to be relinquished close by a get-together of various heavenly creatures by the Sun – going before Wind (Ehécatl) blowing supporting advancement into Sun and Moon to dispatch our present world – decides to stow away by changing himself into, starting, a twofold tail of maize, then a two-area maguey plant and thereafter… into an axolotl! (He's gotten and killed ultimately). 

Additionally, as it accepts a basic part in Mexica fables, 'change likewise expects an enormous part in the periods of food. Food substances are constantly developing: they persistently travel through different stages, from unrefined material to orchestrated suppers. The example of a grain creating from a seed in the ground to a plant that along these lines is harvested and prepared in various habits is an astonishing outline of a food's ability to change and be changed from one state to another(Morán).

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 Axolotls are also named after the Ancient Aztec god, Xolotl. He was the god of fire, lightning, sickness, and deformities. He was depicted as a dog-like creature and was tasked with dragging the sun through the underworld at night. He was also the dark personification of Venus, the evening star, and the twin of Quetzalcoatl.

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