Tezcatlipoc More Than One Sun In Aztec Religion

In Aztec religion there was not only one sun. There also was many more sun gods over the ages. It is kind of like looking at mexican presidents some were more complicated than others were. To make this seem more confusing the empire was actually a mosaic of many cultures so that means it was a combination of more than one religions. In Aztec religion there were 5 ages or “5 suns”. Each of these ages had a different Aztec sun god and each also ended in disaster.

Tezcatlipoca was the first god to be a sun. The god of the night, Tezcatlipoca was an enemy of Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl knocked down Tezcatlipoca from the sky and to get it back, Tezcatlipoca took the form of a jaguar and destroyed the world. Some people chose and said that Tezcatlipoca is the “invisible god”. Tezcatlipoca strongly interacts with the color black and he is also described as having horizontal bands across his face in the colors of black and yellow. There are also stories that this things body is black. He is also always shown carrying a shield with balls made up of feather or cotton and holding arrows or spears in his right hand.

But the rivalry continued, and the paw of the jaguar knocked him from the sky. So the reign of the second sun god came to end (second disaster). A great wind came along and there was big destruction on the earth. To the Aztecs, Quetzalcoatl was, as his name indicates, a feathered serpent, a flying reptile who was a boundary marker between earth and sky. He was a creator deity having contributed essentially to the creation of Mankind. Among the Aztecs, the name Quetzalcoatl was also a priestly title, as the two most important priests of the Aztec Templo Mayor were called "Quetzalcoatl