Miscellaneous Myths: The Five Suns

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Published 2019-04-05

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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All Comments (21)

@andysmith5806 3 years ago

I feel bad for their water god. She cried because she was accused of not loving her humans. That’s heartbreakingly adorable.
@jeronicashaynemangalus7530 4 years ago

Greek gods: Dammit, Zeus! Aztec gods: Dammit, Tez!
@Volvith 4 years ago

"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.
@Cobalt360Degrees 4 years ago

Tezcatlipoca: "You ungrateful humans!" Quetzalcoatl: "NO NOT MY BABIES."
@tinchosabala 5 years ago

>Flying serpent >Trips Logic at its finest.
@pantalimon3275 5 years ago

"Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet." Noted.
@firebrand723 4 years ago

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
@redwitch12 4 years ago

The rain of jaguars accompanied by "MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW" cracked me up.
@Fleance_Snowflower 5 years ago

what I learned from this: Quetzalcoatl is a good god snek
@phanost13 5 years ago

Quetzalcoatl: "Tez, could you not keep ruining the world FOR FIVE MINUTES?!?!"
@francescapatti2934 4 years ago

The sun: exists Tezcatlipoca: anger noises The other gods: oh shit, here we go again. World: ends
@Clawdragoons 4 years ago

"Dips the bones in his blood" I like how you avoid mentioning where the blood came from. For those not in the know, Quetzalcoatl stuck a thorn in his penis and bled all over the bones. This is my favorite creation myth so I remember that detail off the top of my head.
@Indigo_404 5 years ago

“Our lord the flayed one”? Sounds like a dark souls boss
@trailguidealex5010 5 years ago

This entire myth sounds like college students working on a group project
@d4n737 3 years ago

We kind of stopped worrying about the sun. I mean, It's an eldrich abomination by all standards: - Looking at it burns your eyes and causes damage, - Old beyond human race, - Shapeless giant floating through space, flogging it's fire tentacles - Always screaming, yet nobody can hear it - We used to worship it... Like a lot. - Actually mindless.
@purplehaze2358 2 years ago

Greek: The grossest mythology. Norse: The most badass mythology. Aztec: I fear no mythology. But that thing…it scares me.
@andrewkim9848 5 years ago

So, the Aztec gods were basically different game developers having discourse over the same game
@satsfallingdown 5 years ago

"This game sucks, nerf this" "Yeah let's just restart" "It's not working" "Just try again"
@elementsfanfics3859 3 years ago

Aztec Mythology: * exists * H.P. Lovecraft: * horrified screaming *
@moredetonation3755 4 years ago

"Our Lord the Flayed One?" The Aztecs had no chill.