Taryn came forward and faced the grey Kyote mother and went straight to the point as she often did.<br/><br/>"We need information, Mother. We need to know what the legends say of the Cotl and only you know."<br/><br/>She cackled and gestured for them to follow her back to her fire where she stirred the pot over the open flame.<br/><br/>"Most people ignore the old ones because we understand the importance of the legends and repeat them often but our litters wish we would just be still. So yes, I will share a legend of two with you." She settled back, and began to rock herself back and forth. Her eyes settled on a far  horizon while her voice took on a sing song quality.<br/><br/>"Many Kyote myths tell all or part of the story of the five suns. The People believed that four suns, or worlds, had existed before theirs. In each case, catastrophic events had destroyed everything, and the world had come to an end.<br/><br/>Tezcatlipoca created the first sun, known as Nahui-Ocelotl, or Four-Jaguar. It came to an end when Coatl struck down Tezcatlipoca, who became a jaguar and destroyed all the people. Coatl was the ruler of the second sun, Nahui-EhÃ©catl, or Four-Wind. However, Tezcatlipoca threw Quetzal-coatl off his throne, and together the fallen god and the sun were carried off by a hurricane of wind. People turned into monkeys and fled into the forest.<br/><br/>The third sun, Nahuiquiahuitl or Four-Rain, belonged to the rain god Tlaloc. Quetzal-coatl destroyed it with fire that fell from the heavens. The water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue ruled the fourth sun, called Nahui-Atl or Four-Water. A 52-year flood destroyed that sun, and the people turned into fish.<br/>The Loss of the Ancients<br/><br/>Many stories told of the Loss of the Ancients, the mythic event in which the first people disappeared from the earth. One version says that Tezcatlipoca stole the sun, but Quetzalcoatl chased him and knocked him back down to earth with a stick. Tezcatlipoca then changed into a jaguar and devoured the people who lived in that world. The Kyote combine versions of this story to explain the disappearance of people at the end of each of the four worlds that had existed before theirs. Carvings on a stone calendar found in 1790 tell how jaguars, wind, fire, and flood in turn destroyed the Ancients.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The Kyote  lived in the world of Nahui-Ollin (Four-Movement), the fifth sun. They believed that the earth was a flat disk divided into north, east, south, and west quarters, each associated with a color, special gods, and certain days. At the center was Huehueteotl, god of fire. Above the earth were 13 heavens; below it were 9 underworlds, where the dead dwelled, making 9 an extremely unlucky number. A myth about Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl tells how the world was quartered. They made the earth by seizing a woman from the sky and pulling her into the shape of a cross. Her body became the earth, which, angered by their rough treatment, devoured the dead.<br/><br/>Quetzalcoatl, known as the Feathered Serpent, was one of the major gods of Kyote  mythos. This carved serpent<br/>Quetzalcoatl, known as the Feathered Serpent, was one of the major gods of  Kyote mythols This carved serpent's head appears on the Temple of Quetzalcoatl in TeotihuacÃ¡n, Mexico, far, far to our south and east. Over the desert, over the wastelands, past the winding snake of River that divides the north from the south.<br/><br/>Another myth tells of Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl working together to raise the sky. After the Chem<br/>War  that ended the fourth sun, the sky collapsed onto the earth. The two gods became trees, and as they grew, they pushed the sky up. Leaving the trees supporting the sky, one at each end of the earth, they climbed onto the sky and met in the Milky Way.<br/><br/>Quetzalcoatl gave life to the people of the fifth sun by gathering the bones of the only man and woman who had survived the long flood and sprinkling them with his own blood. making the Beastkins, bringing them to life. The gods created the world with blood and required the sacrifice of human blood to keep it intact. One day, however, the fifth sun would meet its end in an all-destroying earthquake."<br/><br/>Read more: Aztec Mythology - Myth Encyclopedia - god, story, legend, names, ancient, animal, snake, war, world, creationm<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ar-Be/Aztec-Mythology.html#ixzz20qB0LREE">http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ar-Be/A ... z20qB0LREE</a>m<br/><br/>The elders eyes were filled with tears and her voice full of longing. She turned her milky blue gaze on Raschen,<br/>"Save our pups from the earthquake to come."