The Aztec creation myth — the Five Suns. Four worlds destroyed in turn (by jaguars, hurricane, fire-rain, water) before our present age, the Fifth Sun, born of the gods' self-sacrifice at Teotihuacan.
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Tradition
Nahuatl. Preserved in the Codex Chimalpopoca (Anales de Cuauhtitlán + Leyenda de los Soles), c. 1558. The fullest pre-Conquest cosmogony surviving from central Mexico.
Translation
John Bierhorst, *History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca* (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992).
License
Used under fair-use principles for non-commercial educational and religious commentary. Copyright remains with the University of Arizona Press and John Bierhorst.