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Aztec myths

There are several myths that explain the creation of the world, but the most common is the legend of the “five suns”. According to that, several versions, the first god is Ometeotl, who created himself from the emptiness of the universe and whose main characteristic is to be ambivalent: He is both man and woman, good and bad, light and dark, fire and water, and so on. He embodies the principle of duality which, among the Aztecs, wants everything to be complementary to another.

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Quetzalcoatl

God of wind and abundance

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Huitzilopochtli

God of the sun and the war

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Mixcoatl

God of the hunt and war

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Tezcatlipoca

God of the night and death