What is Five Suns?
'''Five Suns''' is an [[Aztec]] [[myth]] about how the [[creation myth|world was created]]. It says that there were four other [[sun]]s before our own, because different [[gods]] served as the Sun at different times: # The first sun was [[Tezcatlipoca]] but he fought with his brother [[Quetzalcoatl]] and was knocked out of the sky. The [[human]]s of this age were '''all eaten''' by Tezcatlipoca's [[jaguar]]s. # Quetzalcoatl himself became the second sun but Tezcatlipoca '''turned''' all humans '''into [[monkey]]s.''' Quetzalcoatl destroyed these monkeys with a [[hurricane]] and left the sky to create new humans. # The god of [[rain]], [[Tlaloc]], became the third sun but then Tezcatlipoca married [[Xochiquetzal|his wife]]. All rains stopped and when humans asked him for water, Tlaloc destroyed [[Earth]] with '''a rain of [[fire]].''' # The fourth sun was [[Chalchiuhtlicue]], who loved humans very much. But Tezcatlipoca told her she was selfish and she started crying, causing a '''[[flood]] that killed everyone''' on Earth. # The current, fifth sun is [[Huitzilopochtli]] who fights every day against [[Coyolxauhqui]], goddess of the [[Moon]]. Aztecs believed that this sun would disappear, too, if they didn't support Huitzilopochtli by sacrificing humans. ==Related pages== * [[Ages of Man]] * [[Yuga]] [[Category:Mythology]]