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Quetzalcoatl is an extraordinary god. It occurs in various incarnations, has been known all over Mesoamerica (for example under the name Kulkulcan in the Mayas) and to make the confusion perfect, a famous Toltec ruler also adopted this name.
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Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures.
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aboriginal, first nations, inca, mayan, mayan apocolypse
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Tonatiuh - The Fifth Sun
Tonatiuh was an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky and ruled the cardinal direction of east.
Digital outline art version of Tonatiuh as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis
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central mexico, pre columbian, sun deity, daytime sky, tonatiuh
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Coyolxauhqui was the Aztec goddess of the moon or the Milky Way, who was killed in Aztec mythology by her brother Huitzilopochtli, the god of war. Her stone with a picture of her was found in 1978 in Mexico City.
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Quetzalcoatl went to Mictlan, the underworld, and created the fifth-world from the bones of the previous races, using his own blood to imbue the bones with new life.
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aboriginal, first nations, hispanic, latin american, latina