> the term has been glossed as "birthplace of the gods", or "place where gods were born", reflecting nahua creation myths that were said to occur in teotihuacan > first sun (black tezcatlipoca) > it was four gods who eventually created all the other gods and the world we know today, but before they could create they had to destroy, for every time they attempted to create something, it would fall into the water beneath them and be eaten by cipactli, the giant earth crocodile, who swam through the water with mouths at every one of her joints. from the four tezcatlipocas descended the first people who were titans/giants called quinametzin > they created the other gods, the most important of whom were the water gods: tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility and chalchiuhtlicue, the goddess of lakes, rivers and oceans and also the goddess of beauty. to give light, they needed a god to become the sun and the black tezcatlipoca was chosen, but either because he had lost a leg or because he was god of the night, he only managed to become half a sun. the world continued on in this way for some time, but a sibling rivalry grew between quetzalcoatl and his brother the mighty sun, who quetzalcoatl knocked from the sky with a stone club. with no sun, the world was totally black and in his anger, tezcatlipoca commanded his jaguars to eat all the people
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