Miscellaneous Myths: The Five Suns

Everybody loves a good creation myth. The Aztecs loved it so much they did it five whole times! I'd call it "overkill", but compared to all the other stuff the aztecs believed, four mythical extinction events is actually remarkably tame.

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[andysmith]

I feel bad for their water god. She cried because she was accused of not loving her humans. That’s heartbreakingly adorable.

[Volvith]

"So yeah, in the Aztec cosmology, the Earth itself is a starving primeval monster that wants nothing more than to eat everything at all times..."
That... Actually explains a lot.

[CobaltDegrees]

Tezcatlipoca: "You ungrateful humans!"
Quetzalcoatl: *"NO NOT MY BABIES."*

[tinchosabala]

>Flying serpent
>Trips
Logic at its finest.

[pantalimon]

"Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet."
Noted.

[cupcakegirljen]

Greek gods: Dammit, Zeus!
Aztec gods: Dammit, Tez!

[phanost]

Quetzalcoatl: "Tez, could you not keep ruining the world FOR FIVE MINUTES?!?!"

[Indigo_]

“Our lord the flayed one”? Sounds like a dark souls boss

[firebrand]

So aztec mythology has a giant snake who’s brother is a dog
And Norse mythology has a giant serpent whose brother is a wolf

[satsfallingdown]

"This game sucks, nerf this"
"Yeah let's just restart"
"It's not working"
"Just try again"

[andrewkim]

So, the Aztec gods were basically different game developers having discourse over the same game

[redwitch]

The rain of jaguars accompanied by "MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW" cracked me up.

[entr_nou]

This myth in a brief sentence: “Dammit, Tezcatlipoca!”

[kaleidoslug]

So the earth itself is an unimaginably huge eldritch monstrosity that constantly craves living sacrifices, while humanity has ended several times over, each time in a different way, including countless living jaguars falling from the sky, endless draught followed by raining fire, and then *the sun crying torrential tears of blood for 52 years straight* . And there's a dude who tears off his own skin on a regular basis. The Aztecs were not fucking around

[francescapatti]

The sun: exists
Tezcatlipoca: *anger noises*
The other gods: oh shit, here we go again.
World: ends

[ultimateanimation]

'Let's file that under yikes'
That describes 90% of all mythology.

[haydenc]

All takes is one guy to screw up a group project

[elementsfanfics]

Aztec Mythology: * exists *

H.P. Lovecraft: * horrified screaming *

[Fleance_Snowflower]

what I learned from this: Quetzalcoatl is a good god snek

[Flopsos]

Rain of jaguars sounds like one of the most epic apocalypses