1. Aztec Mythology and Culture

2. Out of Aztlan

3. Aztlan Chicomoztoc - Seven Caves
Seven Tribes: Xochimilca, Tlahuica, Acolhua, Tlaxcalteca, Tepaneca, Chalca, and Mexica
Settled the lands known as Aztlan
Heaven or Hell
Codex Aubin

6. Aztlan Chicomoztoc - Seven Caves
Seven Tribes: Xochimilca, Tlahuica, Acolhua, Tlaxcalteca, Tepaneca, Chalca, and Mexica
Settled the lands known as Aztlan
Heaven or Hell
Codex Aubin
Paradise
Subjugation
Azteca Chicomoztoca

7. Aztlan Sacred homeland Location unknown Northwest Mexico Jalisco
Southwest U.S.

8. Codex Aubin

10. Codex Aubin - Folio 3
Huitzilopochtli
Calpullis
Exodus

12. Codex Aubin - Folio 25
Foundation of Tenochtitlan
Serpent
Eagle
Cactus

13. Creation

14. Creation
Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca
Tlaltecuhtli

15. Tlaltecuh tli

16. The first four suns First sun – Tlachitonatiuh - Earth
Second Sun – Ehecatonatiuh - Air
Third Sun – Tletonatiuh – Fire
Fourth Sun – Atonaliuh – Water

17. The Fifth Sun - Today
Quetzalcoatl
Xolotl
Mictlan
Mictlantecuhtli

18. Xolotl

19. mictlantec uhtli

20. …From death,
…to death

21. Children of Omecatl – the dual god. Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.
Four Tezcatlipocas
Children of Omecatl – the dual god.
Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.

22. The Four Tezcatlipocas
North – Tezcatlipoca – Tezcatlipoca Negro

24. The Four Tezcatlipocas
North – Tezcatlipoca – Tezcatlipoca Negro
South – Huitzilopochtli – Tezcatlipoca Azul

26. The Four Tezcatlipocas
North – Tezcatlipoca – Tezcatlipoca Negro
South – Huitzilopochtli – Tezcatlipoca Azul
East – Xipe Totec – Tezcatlipoca Roja

28. The Four Tezcatlipocas
North – Tezcatlipoca – Tezcatlipoca Negro
South – Huitzilopochtli – Tezcatlipoca Azul
East – Xipe Totec – Tezcatlipoca Roja
West – Quetzalcoatl – Tezcatlipoca Blanco

30. Huitzilopochtli
Colibri del sur

31. Huitzilopochtli
Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south

32. Huitzilopochtli Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south
Omecíhuatl (Coatlicue/Tonantzin)

34. Huitzilopochtli Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south
Omecíhuatl (Coatlicue/Tonantzin)
Coyolxauhqui

36. Huitzilopochtli Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south
Omecíhuatl (Coatlicue/Tonantzin)
Coyolxauhqui
Centzon Huitznahua

38. Xiuhcoatl

39. Huitzilopochtli Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south
Omecíhuatl (Coatlicue/Tonantzin)
Coyolxauhqui
Centzon Huitznahua
Secondary creation story
Huitzilopochtli lights the sun created by Quetzalcoatl

40. Huitzilopochtli Colibri del sur - hummingbird from the south
Omecíhuatl (Coatlicue/Tonantzin)
Coyolxauhqui
Centzon Huitznahua
Secondary creation story
Huitzilopochtli lights the sun created by Quetzalcoatl
Sacrifices ensured daily functions of the earth

41. Quetzalcoatl
The Feathered Serpent

42. Quetzalcoatl Creator God Feathered Serpent Cult Duality
Serpent and Feathers. Limitations and Spirituality
Wisdom, fertility, life and light
Rival to Tezcatlipoca
Associated with Venus and the Solstices

43. Solstice
June 21
December 22

44. Quetzalcoatl Creator God Feathered Serpent Cult Duality
Serpent and Feathers. Limitations and Spirituality
Wisdom, fertility, life and light
Rival to Tezcatlipoca
Associated with Venus and the Solstices
Cortes

45. Tezcatlipo ca

46. God of the night sky, ancestral memory, lord of the north, embodiment of change through conflict.
Origin of power and strength, hope, happiness.
Omnipresent
Toxcoatl

47. Toxcoatl Young male priest Year long work Four flutes
Altars built to all the gods
Climb up the temple

48. God of the night sky, ancestral memory, lord of the north, embodiment of change through conflict.
Origin of power and strength, hope, happiness.
Omnipresent
Toxcoatl
Quetzalcoatl

49. Altepetl and Calpullis

50. Altepetl and Calpullis
Social Order in Tenochtitlan
Altepetl
Atl - Water | Tepetl - Mountain
Water mountain - meaning all the space
Tlatoani - Speaker
Huey Tlatoani - Great Speaker
Emperor? No
Cihuācōhuātl - vice-speaker
Calpulli

51. Moctezuma Xocoyotzin
Moctezuma the Young
9th Tlatoani

52. Visions He saw a comet at daytime
The temple of Huitzilopochtli caught fire, but the more water they used to put the fire out, the more it burned.
The temple of Xiuhtecuhtli (god of fire, day, and heat, personification of life after death and of volcanos) was struck by lightning, but no one heard the thunder.
He sees a meteor shower that moved from west to east.
During a heat wave, the water seemed to boil. Tenochtitlan later flooded.
He hears the spirit of a woman screaming in the streets “my children, my children, we have to leave far, where shall I take them?!”…
A bird that looks similar to a crane is caught and brought to Moctezuma. The bird’s head appeared to be a mirror in which he saw men engaged in war riding what appeared to be deer. When he told his priests about what he saw, he image disappeared.
Visions of strange people, with two heads and one body who would appear and disappear.

53. Tzitzimime

56. The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon