Aztec God Ometecutli
According to the Aztecs, from total void and darkness Ometecutli (“Lord of Duality”) created himself. The Lord of Duality was a union of opposites: good and bad, chaos and order, male and female person. Because he was both male and female (“Lord and Lady of Duality”), Ometecutli was able to conceive children. The union of the Male and Female Lords of Duality gave birth to four children; Huizilopochtli a great warrior, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca and Xipe Totec. Each child became a god in this world and was assigned one of the four cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
Four ages, or “suns” of 2028 years ensued. Each of these “suns” was ended with cataclysms because of the infighting among the child gods as they faught among each other for power. All humans in each of the previous four suns were destroyed or converted to something else.
In the total darkness after the destruction of the fourth sun, Quetzalcoatl (known as the feathered serpent) went down into the underworld to bring up the bones of the dead. They would be used to bring to life the people who would live in the pre Columbian ”fifth sun”. In this fifth current sun Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, gods ancient and powerful jointly recreated heaven, earth, and all the inhabitants.
The pre Columbian Aztecs, also known as Mexica believed that the war god Huitzilopochtli himself frequently intervened in their behalf bestowing his blessings upon them and allowed them to conquer and rule. Through his guidance the mighty Aztec empire grew. And, the mighty aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was established as the center of th world.
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But the world was a precarious and unstable place, the sun could not move across the sky by himself. As a matter of fact, when it first came into the sky, it couldn’t move at all. To remedy this situation, the gods themselves had to practise blood sacrifices to energize the sun and allow it to continue its daily journey. And now, humans needed to repay the debt, to keep the sun moving, with their own blood sacrifices.
Thus the sun required both the blood of gods and humans to continue its journey and it was Huitzilopochtli, the great warrior god in particular who fought for the sun. Warriors, gods and human alike, fought to provide sustenance to keep the sun moving.
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