#sun king tonatiuh

[anon-402]

All 'Dia de Los Muertos' references in today's QSMP event

I’ve seen it in Xitter but not yet in Tumblr, so I’m gonna go and translate each Egg’s book with the references to the deities that are mention within.

(English is not my first language. Sorry for any typo or grammar mistake).

For Tilin:

Tilin, my girl, I’m sorry you couldn’t enjoy the life it was expected for you, but don’t be afraid you will be with mom at Chichihualcuauhco[1] where I will take care of you. I won’t let anything hurt my helpless girl until you have the opportunity to be reborn again, you didn’t deserve to join the Gods in the underworld. - Tezcatlipoca[2]

For Bobby:

My little Bobby, you have proven to own dignity and courage to fight for what is right, As a result of this, I’ve invited you to my kingdom  Tonatiuhichan[3], where at my side, you and other warriors will sing about their deeds and will dance until midnight, so you can enjoy forever the sunset that you adore so much. - Tonaituh[4]

For Juana:

Juana, it’s an honor for me and my wife Mictecachihuatl[5] to have you join us in the Mictlan[6]. Even though your dead was an accident, you may enjoy the journey that is our kingdom. You treated nature with respect in your life, so our dogs are excited to meet you at last. You will join us in the infinity of the universe forever. - Mictlantecuhtli [7]

For Trump:

Oh Trump, I’m sorry that my currents took you to this destiny, but to compensate I will invite you to Tlalocan[8], where you may join us in our celebration without end, and you may eat all the corn, amaranth, pumpkin, tomato and chile you want. In my kingdom, I promise you there’s no suffering and you will never be alone. - Tlaloc [9]

Now for all the little references:

[1] Chichihualcuauhco:

Afterlife in which children who died young or in childbirth are sent and fed from the “wet-nurse tree” (You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a tree in Tilin’s altar). Souls here wait for their next opportunity to be reborn.

[2] Tezcatlipoca:

He’s one of the four creator gods of the universe. I’m not an expert on Aztec mythology and I wasn’t really into Tilin’s lore, so I’m kinda uncertain as to why he was the one to write to them or how are they connected.

[3] Tonatiuhichan:

One of the afterlife paradises, where the soul of warries who died in battle go. It was believed that warriors could go back to their homes (land of the living) as hummingbirds. (Fun fact: Woman who died at childbirth would be given the same rank as the warriors who died in battle and would be sent to a similar place called Cihuatlampa!)  

[4] Tonatiuh:

God of the sun (who runs Tonatiuhichan), who most believed was the creator of the Flor of Cempasúchil.

[5] Mictecachihuatl:

Lady of the Dead, Mictlantecuhtli’s consort. She guards the bones of the dead. (Fun Fact: In Oaxaca, is known as Matlacihua, and is said to punish womanizing and drunken men who walk late at night. Kinda funny considering Mariana and Slime’s interactions lmao.)

[6] Mictlan:

The underworld. Most people who die travel to Mictlan. To travel to the kingdom, you have to go through nine levels, which kinda needs dogs to carry the dead across the river. Same reason as to why Juana is sent dogs. (Fun fact: Depending in the color of the dog, they would act different. Yellow ones would just carry the soul, white ones would refuse cause they just washed themselves, and black dogs would refuse cause they just swum the river.)

[7] Mictlantecuhtli:

Lord of the Dead, king of Mictlan. There’s nothing much to say about him; he just simply tried to maintain order in the kingdom and was kinda of an asshole to other gods. There’s a whole myth about other Gods wanting to repopulate Earth, and him going ‘Nuh uh’ until Quetzalcóatl gets tired of him and steals the human bones from Mictlan lol.

[8] Tlalocan:

The afterlife of the Nectar. Better known as the water paradise, where those who died through drowning (or anything associated with rain for that matter) go. I read somewhere that there’s a theory of Trump dying because he drown in his own tears, so that’s why he was invited by Tlaloc.

[9] Tlaloc:

The God of rain, associated as the giver of life. The flower Tagetes Lucida are kind of like the Cempasúchil, and are his symbol.

[talonabraxas]

The King and Queen of Staffs, from the Tarot Yohuali Ehecatl, the "Aztec" tarot. Staffs are a symbol of fire, so they are ruled by Tonatiuh the Sun and Chantico the household fire.

The Ace of Staffs. The wand, weapon, and walking stick with which to undertake spiritual journeys.

Corazon Mexica @MiCorazonMexica

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.4.6

ox[3] KIMI/KAME [death] - b'olon [9] MUWAN

galactic tone: action/ rhythm

sun sign: TRANSFORMER| owl/white/north

tie all loose ends - MAYA

yei[3] - MIQUITZLI [death]

Chalchihuitlicue | Tecciztecatl

huactli[falcon]

lord of the night: Itztli

trecena[3]: Itzlacoliuhqui

x: yei[3] - toxcatl - NAHUA

Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli is Curved Point of Obsidian - Knife Eye Bundle, the god of frost, ice, cold, winter, sin, punishment and human misery. He is also the god of objectivity and blind-folded justice. He is a variant of Tezcatlipoca and associated with the night and the north.

Itztlacoliuhqui once was Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (Lord of the Dawn, Venus as the Morning Star), but after a shooting match with the Sun Tonatiuh during the creation of the Fifth World, he was punished by Tonatiuh and transformed into Itztlacoliuhqui, god of stone and coldness. [www.azteccalendar.com]

The trecena we are 3 days into is governed by Itzlacoliuhqui- so here are some songs about COLD:

Foreigner: Cold as Ice

Carole King: Out in the Cold

Dolly Parton& Rod Stewart: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Cold Shot

Tone-Loc: Funky Cold Medina

Paula Abdul: Cold Hearted

George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Never Grow Cold

AFI: Silver and Cold

Paramore: Hello Cold World

Foo Fighters: Cold Day in the Sun

Demi Lovato: Stone Cold

Beck: Cold Brains

Little Feat: Cold Cold Cold

Cage the Elephant: Cold Cold Cold

Adele: Cold Shoulder

Mitski: A Horse Named Cold Air

Stevie Wonder: Cold Chill

Katy Perry: Hot N Cold

Lenny Kravitz: Straight Cold Player

The Chicks: Cold Day in July

Judas Priest: Out in the Cold

Cyndi Lauper: Hot Gets A Little Cold

Thin Lizzy: Cold Sweat

Mariah Carey: You're So Cold

Elton John: Warm Love in a Cold World

Tears for Fears: Cold

Annie Lennox: Cold

Bob Dylan: Cold Irons Bound

Arcade Fire: Cold Wind

Merle Haggard: This Cold War with You

Joni Mitchell: Come in From the Cold

AC/DC: Cold Hearted Man

Fleetwood Mac: Cold Black Night

The Rolling Stones: She's So Cold

Bob Marley: Coming In From the Cold

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Out in the Cold

The White Stripes: In the Cold, Cold Night

Norah Jones: Cold Cold Heart

Aretha Franklin: Cold, Cold Heart

Hank Williams: Cold Cold Heart

Queen: Stone Cold Crazy

Nirvana: Tourette's

John Lennon: Cold Turkey

Tom Waits: Cold Cold Ground

Muddy Waters: Cold Weather Blues

David Bowie: She Shook Me Cold

[santoschristos]

Topiltecuhtli Tonatiuh the Lord of the Sun, aztec, mexica heart. Topiltecuhtli, represented by Tonatiuh, the Lord of the Sun. The significance of this day: 27/08/2023

Day Cipactli (Crocodile, known as Imix in Maya) is governed by Tonacatecuhtli, Lord of Nurturance, as its provider of tonalli (Shadow Soul) life energy. Cipactli is an auspicious day, signifying advancement and honor. It depicts energy and work, rewards and recognition. A good day for beginnings.

This is the King of Staffs, which corresponds to the King of Wands in the standard tarot. The king here is Tonatiuh, the Lord of the Sun, for Staffs are the sign of fire. His skin is painted red, and his hair is flame, and he is crowned and jeweled with the sun. He sits on a throne of fire, and his feet rest on the bundle of logs burned as offerings and at the beginning of each year to symbolize rebirth and renewal. The sun behind his head burns with a great brilliance, and drives away the clouds, darkness, and chaos of night. His staff is of turquoise, for that is the color at the center of the brightest flames, and is crowned with the flower of poetry, art, and creation. This card symbolizes the noble man, the bright, animated and passionate spirit. It is a card of creativity and fertility, of the brilliant creative spirit. It is also a card which looks down from high places, which sees all, but which, if unguarded, can symbolize arrogance and cruelty, and which can blind with the force of its spectacular brilliance. It is that which is necessary for all growth and all life, which represents the light of the intellect and of wisdom.

[louisefogerty]

Character design

El Charro Negro, from upcoming webcomic Sun King Tonatiuh.

[tlatollotl]

shield (?); religious/ritual equipment (?); disc (?); regalia; mosaic

Cultures/periods: Aztec or Mixtec

Production date: 1400 - 1521

Findspot: Mexico

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Shield, or disc, with mosaic design depicting the principal divisions of the Aztec universe. Made from pine (Pinus) wood, with resin adhesive and mosaic of turquoise and three types of shell: conch (Strombus), thorny oyster (Spondylus princeps) and mother-of-pearl (Pinctada mazatlanica). Parts of the design are worked in gilded resin relief. A band of now undecorated wood around the circumference of the shield is pierced by a series of more or less regularly spaced holes, which might have been used to attach feathers to the shield. In addition, there are numerous holes in the body of the shield which from the back appear to be located at random but are in fact positioned and shaped very precisely to coincide with particular elements in the mosaic design.

The mosaic design on the shield portrays the principal divisions in the Aztec universe. The overall circular shape corresponds to the surface of the earth. At its centre is a circle of mosaic with four rays still partially outlined by red Spondylus princeps and conch shell. The four rays emanating from the solar disc divide the earth into four quarters. In each quarter stands a sky bearer with eyes, teeth and ear ornaments formed of mother-of-pearl shell. The hands are represented by incised mother-of-pearl and pitted orange Spondylus shell.

Solar discs feature on the design of many shields and may reflect the association between Tonatiuh, the sun, and turquoise. Tonatiuh, among the most prominent of the sky gods, was central to the cult of war, which sought to obtain captives and hearts for sacrifice to the sun. The sun was often depicted as a warrior with a rayed solar disc, and the significance of solar discs on mosaic shields probably related to the symbolism of warfare in their ceremonial use. The shield also incorporates the image of a great serpent emerging from toothed jaws and coiling skywards. The tail of the serpent is plumed on its lowermost coil and the head bears a large fang of white conch shell. The eye is made from mother-of-pearl shell and the jaw is outlined using reddish-pink Spondylus princeps and conch shell. One side of the serpent's body is bordered by small studs of pine resin, the same resin that was used to fix the tesserae to the wood. Each of the studs was formed individually on top of the resin layer beneath and then covered by gold foil. Some of the studs retain their original foils, complete with the small falls and puckers in the gold that were inevitably formed when the flat foils were pressed over the domed studs.

The body of the serpent winds sinuously upward through the design. At the top are the flowering branches of a tree, the trunk of which, hidden by a raised square 'cartouche', forms a vertical 'world axis' connecting the underworld and earthly and celestial realms. The ability of snakes to move freely between water, earth and the forest canopy probably accounts for their symbolic role in Mesoamerican mythology as an intermediary between the different layers of the cosmos. At the top of the tree there is an upturned anthropomorphic mask with raised hands implying that the tree can be seen as a metaphor for the king, who derives his authority on earth from divine sources of power and who would himself have carried the shield. A feature of the shield's design is the use of surface relief to define the various iconographical features. Careful carving of the underlying wood, in this instance Pinus sp. (pine), established not just the overall shape but also the finer, three-dimensional features of the designs such as the serpent and the sky-bearers, which were raised by about a millimetre to outline their shapes better. The technique is a characteristic of several of the turquoise mosaics and appears to have been similar to that used to define the circular bands of the Brussels shield. The holes in the body of the shield might have been used to attach feathers to it. Positioned and shaped very precisely, the holes must have been made before the mosaic work commenced, indicating that the final design was planned in detail prior to the tesserae being laid down.

British Museum

[comparativetarot]

King of Flints. Art by Chicome Itzcuintli Amatlapantli, from Tarot Yohualli Ehecatl.

(Also used in The Alleyman’s Tarot.)

Tecpatecuhtli is here revealed as Itzlacoliuhqui, Our Lord of the Curved Obsidian Blade, who is the Lord of Winter, of Stone, Cold, Frost, and Judgement. He is enthroned on an icpalli, a throne, of volcanic stone, which is carved with glyphs of bone and of wisdom. He is blindfolded, for to dispense justice, he must preside in judgement, and justice is blind. He wears the moon as a nose-ring, for he has the insightful nature of night and the moon. He is dressed entirely in white, a color of cold and death, and holds a flint knife in his hand, with which he dispenses justice, sacrifice, and death. His body is covered with unspun white cotton. Unspun cotton is a symbol of Tlazolli. All things are either ordered or un-ordered. The un-ordered is Tlazolli. Unspun cotton, as it comes from nature, is no more than a tangle of threads, useless to anyone. Yet, in the hands of the spinner and the weaver, it is spun into thread and woven into cloth, thus covering our nakedness and giving us warmth in the cold. Tlazolli is the state of un-orderedness, which can be physical as well as spiritual. Raw cotton is un-ordered in a physical sense, but the souls can be un-ordered in a spiritual sense, and exist in a state of Tlazolli. The unexamined heart is inclined to vindictiveness, envy, greed, and sloth, all of which inspire actions which are condemned by the family, the community, and the state, bringing the justice of Itzlacoliuhqui down upon us. He wears over his penis a paper cone wrapped in a paper rosette. This is an adornment of the Lords of Death, worn by them on their headdresses. Here, its placement suggests death as well as life and fertility, rebirth as a result of judgement and penance. His headdress is a bent blade, lined with thorns, and is a visual pun which symbolizes his name, The Curved Obsidian Blade. It is pierced with an arrow. In sacred narrative, the sun rose to the zenith at the first sun-rise, but once there announced that he had no strength to move, and required the sacrifice of all of the Teteo, for only in the sacred power of their blood and heart, their Teyollia, could he find the strength to move. Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, Dawn Lord, who is the lord of Venus as the morning star, was greatly angered, and he tried to shoot the sun out of the sky. But his arrows could not reach the sun; Tonatiuh the sun shot him back with an arrow of his own, and when it struck him, he was transformed into Itzlacoliuhqui. Therefore, the night is always coldest just before the dawn, in the hours when the Dawn Lord, the Morning Star, rises into the sky. He rules over a beautiful city, whose order and might are the result of his just rulership, just as the order and success of the individual are owed to those who seek always to live lives of in accordance with the Middle Path. Itzlacoliuhqui punishes the wicked, but also rewards the deserving.

[mijh]

Mictlāntēcutli ( Spanish pronunciation: [miktlaːnteːkutli] ( listen )About this sound ) or Mictlantecuhtli ( nahuatl pronunciation: [mik.t͡ɬaːn.ˈteːkʷ.t͡ɬi] , which means "Lord of Mictlan"), and is an Aztec mythology of the dead. the king of the Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), the lowest and most northerly section of the underworld. He is one of the main gods of the Aztecs and the most prominent of several gods and goddesses of death and the underworld. Mictlantecuhtli worship sometimes involved ritual cannibalism, with human flesh being consumed in and around the temple.  Other names given to Mictlantecuhtli include Ixpuztec ("Broken Face"), Nextepehua ("Ash Spreader") and Tzontemoc ("He Who Lowers His Head").  Two life-size clay statues of Mictlantecuhtli were found marking the entrances to the House of the Eagles north of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan.�� attributes Mictlantecuhtli was considered to be 1.8 m tall and was described as a blood-spattered skeleton or a person with a jagged skull.  Although its head was typically a skull, the eye sockets contained eyeballs.his headdress was shown decorated with owl feathers and paper bands and he wore a necklace of human eyeballs,while his ears were made of human bones. He was not the only Aztec god to be represented in this way, as several other deities had skulls in place of heads or wore clothing or decorations that incorporated bones and skulls. In the Aztec world, skeletal images were a symbol of fertility, health and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between life and death.  He was often portrayed wearing sandals as a symbol of his high status as Lord of Mictlan.  his arms were often depicted raised in an aggressive gesture, showing that he was ready to tear the dead to pieces when they came into his presence. In the Aztec codices, Mictlantecuhtli is often depicted with his skeletal jaw open to receive the stars that descend to him during the day.  His wife was Mictecacihuatl, and together they said they lived in a windowless house in Mictlan. Mictlantecuhtli has been associated with spiders , owls , bats ,the 11th hour and the northern direction of the compass, known as Mictlampa, the region of death. [10] He was one of the few deities considered to rule all three types of souls identified by the Aztecs, which distinguished between the souls of people who died from normal death (old age, illness, etc.), heroic deaths (eg, in battle, sacrifice or childbirth), or unheroic deaths. Mictlantecuhtli and his wife were the opposites and complements of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the givers of life.  Mictlanteculhtli was the god of the day, sign Itzcuintli (dog),  one of 20 signs recognized in the Aztec calendar, and was considered to supply the souls of those born on that day. He was seen as the source of souls for those born on the sixth day of the 13-day week and was the fifth of the Aztecs' nine Night Gods. He was also the secondary week god for the tenth week of the 20-week calendar cycle, joining the sun god Tonatiuh to symbolize the dichotomy between light and dark. [citation needed] In the Codex Colonial Vaticanus 3738, Mictlantecuhtli is labeled in Spanish as "the lord of the underworld, Tzitzimitl, the same as Lucifer".  myths In Aztec mythology, after Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca created the world, they put their creation in order and placed Mictlantecuhtli and his wife, Mictecacihuatl, in the underworld.  According to Aztec legend, the twin gods Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl were sent by other gods to steal the bones of the previous generation of gods from Mictlantecuhtli. The god of the underworld tried to block Quetzalcoatl's escape with the bones, and although he failed, he forced Quetzalcoatl to release the bones, which were scattered and broken by the fall. The shattered bones were collected by Quetzalcoatl and carried back to the land of the living, where the gods transformed them into the various races of mortals.  When a person died, he was buried with deadly goods, which he carried with him on the long and dangerous journey to the

underworld. Upon arrival in Mictlan, these goods were offered to Mictlantecuhtli and his wife.  In another myth, the shrewd (cunning) god of death agrees to give Quetzalcoatl the bones if he can completely complete what appears to be a simple test. The god informs Quetzalcoatl that he has to travel through his realm four times, while a shell sounds like a trumpet. However, instead of giving Quetzalcoatl Mictlantecuhtl's shell, he gives him a normal shell without holes. Not to be ridiculed, Quetzalcoatl beckons the worms to come out and pierce the shell, creating holes. He then calls the bees to enter the shell and make it sound like a trumpet. (As an emblem of his power over wind and life, Quetzalcoatl is commonly depicted wearing a shell cut from his chest, this shell representing the same shell that Ehécatl, the wind god, wears).  As he hears the roar of the trumpet, Mictlantecuhtl at first decides to allow Quetzalcoatl to take all the bones of the latest creation, but soon changes his mind. However, Quetzalcoatl is more cunning than Mictlantecuhtl and his minions and runs off with the bones. Mictlantecuhtli, now very angry, orders his followers to create a very deep moat. As Quetzalcoatl flees with the bones, he is startled by a quail, which makes him fall into the pit. He falls into the pit and dies (or so it seems), and is later tormented by the animal (the quail), and the bones he carries are scattered. The quail then begins to gnaw on the bones. Despite the fall, Quetzalcoatl is eventually revived and reunites all the broken bones. It is for this reason that people today come in all different sizes. After escaping from the Underworld, Quetzalcoatl carries the precious cargo to Tamoanchan,  a place of miraculous origin.

in popular culture Mictlantecuhtli appears in the web animation series Constantine: City of Demons 2018. Mictlantecuhtli is the main villain Onyx Equinox, where he mass slays human cities, stealing the blood sacrifices of other gods and prompting them to send a champion to close the gates of the underworld. Mictlantecuhtli appears in Aliette de Bodard's 2010 book Servant of the Underworld. Mictlantecuhtli is the name of a black-thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Mictlantecuhtli appears as the combined warrior form of the gods of Mictlān, Mic and Hun, in Victor and Valentino.

[musexmess]

                                          ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕤𝕠 𝕋𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕝                   𝕕𝕖 𝕦𝕟 𝔻𝕚𝕠𝕤 𝕕𝕖 𝕋𝕚𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠 𝕀𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕝

【 GENERAL 】

NAME: Tezcatlipoca AGE: Ancient SPECIES: Deity           DATE OF BIRTH: The Rise of the Aztec Empire GENDER/PRONOUNS: Genderfluid || They/He LOCATION: Earth ORIENTATION: Bisexual OCCUPATION: God FACECLAIM: Tyler Posey || Eiza Gonzalez

【 PERSONALITY 】

POSITIVE TRAITS:  Adaptable, level-headed, kind, witty NEGATIVE TRAITS:  Sarcastic, reserved, prideful, harsh HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin/Gryffindor PRIMARY VIRTUE: Fortitude PRIMARY VICE: Gluttony ALLIGNMENT: Neutral Good

【 AESTHETIC 】

A heart on your hands, blood dripping down your fingers and your mouth, sacrifice is the ultimate honor. Gold and jewels, decadency, how devine it is to be solid, to walk amongst your people and feel at home. Destruction, smoke, loss. War is bitter on your mouth and death clings to your heart, heavy and full of guilt. The taste of pulque, the smell of home made cooking, the sound of too many people in a small room. Staying in the corner, observing from a distance, being and yet not quite belonging. A hand begging held, ying and yang, the night brings comfort and so does the darkness. You’ve been king and beggar, powerful and miserable, now you are happy, at last.

【 RANDOM FACTS 】

- Their right leg is a prosthetic, their leg is gone from below the knee. - They have a black and tattoo on their left arm. - Their eyes are regularly brown, they turn completely black when using their powers and in them, people can see their fears reflected.  - They have a nahual and it is a jaguar - When in their most true form, they have a black band across their face and an obsidian mirror decorates their chest. - They do not bleed

【 POWERS 】

- Omnipresence ( now very limited, the radius of his presence depends on the amount of people from his primary country, Mexico )  - Shape shifting powers ( never perfect replicas of other people, usually limits themselves to their two main forms and their nahual )  - Wind control - Darkness control - Superhuman strength and Hearing

【 WEAKNESSES 】

- Their power lessens when not around other aztecs, specially Quetzalcoatl - Obsidian blades made by Gods can properly harm them - Their power can dull if they don’t get enough sacrifice - The link they share with Quetzalcoatl, if harm comes to him, Tezca feels it too

【 RELATIONSHIPS 】

- Quetzalcoatl ( played by multiplcx ) - Huitzilopochtli ( played by multiplvs ) - Mixcoatl  ( played by multiplcx ) - Xochipilli ( played by flcwerprince ) - Xochiquetzal  ( played by multiplvs ) - Mictlantecuhtli ( played by multiplvs ) - Catrina ( played by me )

【 IN DEPTH BIO 】

It started with the first duality,  Ometeotl created you along with the others. A pantheon born into an infinite cosmos, the universe a playground to explore. Quetzalcoatl was your first friend, your first love, your first connection. With him you went to the edge of the universe and then some, with him you went on adventures and got in trouble and to him you trusted your very life. 

It was one of your adventures that led to the creation of the World, luring a monster by baiting it with your own flesh. How fun it was to see the beast come from the depths, all teeth and thirst for blood. You became acquainted with sacrifice then, as you lost your foot to the jaws of  Cipoctli before you and Quetzalcoatl pulled it apart limb by limb, creating the Earth and the Skies above. The other Gods were horrified and made sure every part of the body of the creature who had given it’s life for the sake of this new creation was used, turned into something new and beautiful. 

This new world you populated, with giants that you made from the Earth itself, moulded them with your hands, watching them live in this world you’ve gifted them, for 676 years your creations lived under your watchful eye. La Era del Primer Sol. You ruled over them on your own until Quetzalcoatl came to throw you from the skies, into the depths of the waters. You came out a jaguar, rage filled and destroying that which you once had loved, giants crumbling to dust leaving an empty world that Quetzalcoatl wanted to populate. 

You watched as he created, monkey-man made of wind. La Era del Segundo Sol began with Quetzalcoatl’s laughter and how could you be mad at him when he shone so beautifully in the sky above? But his time too had to come to an end and after  675 years, you blew strong winds that made the creatures disappear into nothing, ending the rule of your love. 

La Era del Tercer Sol started with Tlaloc’s creation, monkey men this time made of water, beautiful but unstable, they wandered the Earth under his watch and as he left to rule the Skies, he left behind a wife....Xochiquetzal was gorgeous, breath taking and you wanted her. If Tlaloc wouldn’t have her, why couldn’t you? With lovely words and a tight grip you stole her and you loved her, a pretty butterfly in a cage for you to admire. And Tlaloc’s era ended after 364 years, with fire and brimstone that Quetzalcoatl made fall from above.

It was then that  Chalchiuhtlicue took his place. La Era del Cuarto Sol was for fish-men made of fire and you observed aching for the power you once had, for the sense of duty and the adoration of your people. You were busy with your eyes elsewhere and Quetzalli was stolen from under your nose, set free by Ixotecuhtli, who made her his bride. You didn’t fight it, as the rain poured down on Earth, drowning the fish men, turning them into fish, the end of an era after 312 years and now....What would happen?

Amongst the Gods were the talks, of the new age to come and how to rule it, of the best way to build men, of who the Sun of the world should be. Tecuciztécatl offered themselves and everyone chose  Nanahuatzin. A sacrifice on fire and  Tonatiuh came to be, rising from the ashes. La Era del Quinto Sol started with sacrifice.

The question then was how would men be made. The elements have failed them before so they had to look somewhere else. Mictlan was the place to go, the bones of the ancestors would be moulded into the new beings, Quetzalcoatl would have to go, along Xolotl. The bones would be crushed and the Gods would give their blood to create human kind. And so it was, and the World came to be, you ruled with the rest of your pantheon, taking care of human kind, accepting their sacrifice, loving your people. 

When the time came for you to take your place amongst humanity, Quetzalcoatl wasn’t there so you waited and your people waited. When humans made from other Gods came to steal everything your people had, they mistook them as Gods and you could do nothing. When the fighting started you tried but without Quetzalcoatl you were incomplete. There was no winning against these people who carried guns and sickness. You suffered, as your people suffered, begged for the forgiveness of the death. Stayed on Earth with them trying to fight at every chance you got against the tyranny of the conquistadores.

They forgot your name, stopped believing, the faith in you grew weaker and weaker and the grief was too much to carry. You wandered the world a ghost of yourself, waiting for something, expecting nothing. But the whispers of your name made you stay alive, you clung to your people, granted them favours, stole and took from churches and white men. You ate their hearts without mercy and with your power you gave what you could to your people. 

And Quetzalcoatl finally came back. In an Era where you were no longer needed, where you could not take back the throne for someone else was sitting upon it, strong and undefeated. The scar tissue of what was lingers but you’ve grown to accept your fate, you worry that your love won’t ever move on.

[txnatiuh]

1, 2, & 4

Get to know me better: 1)What made you decide to roleplay this muse? || 2)Do you roleplay other muses? || 4)What made you decide on your URL name?

1: One of the reasons I decided to rp Enij because of a friend. We would talk about him often and I asked jokingly ‘what if i made an enji blog’ and friend told me to do it. So I did!

2: Yup yup yup. I have a Vlad King blog I created relatively recently. Lowkey forgot the character existed and noticed there weren’t any blogs of him. I decided to make him a blog becauuuse I’m weak

4: The url comes from the name Tonatiuh, an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky. The worship of Tonatiuh required human blood and hearts, as they believed that was what sustained him. There would be frequent human sacrifices to ensure the sun would continue to rise in the day. 

[thesustainableswap]

BLM Master Post / Resources

No blog post this week. I felt like this was much more important. Here is a master post of everything I’ve found regarding the BLM movement, from petitions, to where you should donate, to reading, to accounts, to business... hopefully most of what you’re looking for can be found below. If I’ve missed anything vital please let me know and I will add it.

Petitions:

Justice for George Floyd (White House) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (color of Change)

RAISE THE DEGREE - Remove bail for Derek Chauvin, murderer of George Floyd (White House) | Arrest The Other Three (White House) | Raise The Degree (change.org) | The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder (change.org)

#JusticeforBre (MoveOn.org) | #JusticeforBre (color of Change)

Justice For Ahmaud Arbery (change.org) | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill (change.org) | Disbarment of George E. Barnhill (change.org)

Trayvon Martin Law (change.org)

Hands Up Act (change.org)

Justice for Belly Mujinga (change.org)

Justice for Tony McDade (change.org)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez (change.org)

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Julius Jones is innocent (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris (change.org)

Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery (change.org)

Defund The Police Minneapolis (Every Action / Reclaim The Block) | Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality (change.org) | National Action Against Police Brutality (change.org) | Against Police Brutality in France (change.org)

Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus (BLM) | Coronavirus: Demand More from the Government (BLM)

Get Schools to Speak Up (change.org)

Stand with BLM (organizefor.org)

Organisations to Donate to

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Campaign Zero

Black Lives Matter

UKBLM

National Bailout Fund

Black Earth Farms

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Unicorn Riot

Louisville Community Bail Fund

Rebuilding the Community (We Love Lake Street)

United Families and Friends Campaign

COVID-19: Supporting BAME Communities

House of GG

Trans Justice Funding Project

The Okra Project

Youth Breakout

SNaPCo

Black AIDS Insitute

Trans Cultural District

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

For If You Have Little Money to Spare:

Check out these YouTube videos and play them while you go about your day (or actively watch! Up to you.) The ad revenue will be donated to organisations supporting black lives - but make sure you turn off your adblocker first.

By Zoe Amira

By Francesca Grace

By Cindy Marshall

By Danni and Emmyn

Instagram Accounts (source)

Nova Reid

Layla Saad

Rachel Cargle

Check Your Privilege

Rachel Ricketts

The Great Unlearn

Reni Eddo Lodge

Ibram X. Kendi

Galdem

The Irin Journal

Women Who

For Working Ladies

Thyself

Black Girl Fest

UK isn’t Innocent

Readbyrachelaa

Mikaela Loach

Podcasts

About Race with Remi Eddo-Lodge

Conversations with Nova Reid

iWeigh with Jameela Jamil

The YIKES podcast

Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

The World Wide Tribe

Zero Hour Talks

1619 by the New York Times

TV / Film (source)

13th

When They See Us

Selma

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

I Am Not Your Negro

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hate U Give

American Son

Trial by Media

Books: (Source)

How To Be Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Me and White Supremacy by Robin Diangelo and Layla Saad

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

America’s Original Sin By Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al.

An African American and Latin History of The United States by Paul Ortiz

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Mindful of Race by Ruth King

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Coloraturas of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

This Book Is Anti Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand

Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch

Children’s Books: (Source)

Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard

My Hair Is A Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

Young Water Protectors by Aslan Tudor

My Family Divided by Diana Guerrero

We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell

I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren

When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

Happy In Our Skin by Fran Manushkin

Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Maria Dismondy

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford

When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett

Shining Star The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo & Lin Wang

Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History by Vashti Harrison

Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt

Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

Sulwe by Vashti Harrison

A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara

Intersection Allies by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council & Carolyn Choi

What Is Race? Who Are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Clair Heuchan & Nikesh Shukla

Black Owned Businesses: (source)

Wales Bonner

Casely-Hayford

Daughter of a Bohemian


Daily Paper

Aaks: Basket Bags

Martine Rose

Nubian Skin

Sincerely Nude

Liha Beauty

Beauty Stack

Bouclème: Afro and Curly Hair Products

Afrocenchix: Hair Products

The Afro Hair and Skin Company: shampoo bars, hair masks, face masks

Prick: Cacti and Plantcare

La Basketry: homeware

Bonita Ivie: stationery & design

Reset travel: travel cards and workshops

Bespoke Binny: homeware

New Beacon Books: Specialists in African and Caribbean Literature

Original Flava by Craig & Shaun McAnuff

Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen by Zoe Adjonyoh

Hibiscus by Lopè Ariyo

Ethiopia by Yohanis Gebreyesus

Belly Full by Riaz Phillips

Chika’s Snacks

Berry and Brie Grazing Boxes

Yard Confectionery Chocolate

Cabby’s Rum

Cham Cham Hot Pepper Sauce

Stay strong, and get learning (or unlearning)!

[talonabraxas]

Topiltecuhtli, represented by Tonatiuh, the Lord of the Sun. This is the King of Staffs, which corresponds to the King of Wands in the standard tarot. The king here is Tonatiuh, the Lord of the Sun, for Staffs are the sign of fire. His skin is painted red, and his hair is flame, and he is crowned and jewelled with the sun. He sits on a throne of fire, and his feet rest on the bundle of logs burnt as offerings and at the beginning of each year to symbolise rebirth and renewal. The sun behind his head burns with a great brilliance, and drives away the clouds, darkness, and chaos of night. His staff is of turquoise, for that is the color at the center of the brightest flames, and is crowned with the flower of poetry, art, and creation. This card symbolises the noble man, the bright, animated and impassioned spirit. It is a card of creativity and fecundity, of the brilliant creative spirit. It is also a card which looks down from high places, which sees all, but which, if unguarded, can symbolise arrogance and cruelty, and which can blind with the force of its spectacular brilliance. It is that which is necessary for all growth and all life, which represents the light of the intellect and of wisdom. Topiltecuhtli, Tonatiuh, Sun God, Mexican Aztec Spirituality, Tarot, Corazon Mexica

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.0.18

oxlajun[13] ETZ'NAB/TIJAAX jun[1] CEH

galactic tone: ascension/ universal movement

sun sign: FLINT| fish/white/north

spend time in reflection and introspection - MAYA

mahtlactli-onei[13] - TECPATL[flint knife]

Citlalicue | Chalchihuihtotolin

toznene[parrot]

lord of the night: Chalchihuitlicue

trecena[13]: Tonatiuh

x: caxtolli[15]- cuauhuitlehua - NAHUA

today is a time to deal with a look within, so some songs about SOUL:

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Soul to Squeeze

Aretha Franklin: A Little Bit of Soul

De La Soul: Me, Myself and I

Ben E. King: What is Soul?

Del the Funky Homosapien: Sunny Meadows

Tracy Chapman: All That You Have is Your Soul

Depeche Mode: Goodnight Lovers & Soothe My Soul

ABBA: Hole in Your Soul

Marc Almond: Soul on Soul

Gorillaz: Last Living Souls

Beck: Total Soul Future

Elvis Costello: Soul for Hire

Soul II Soul: Back to Life

The Rolling Stones: Soul Survivor

The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul

Kim Wilde: European Soul

George Michael: Soul Free

Toots and the Maytals: Reggae Got Soul

Hank Williams: Where the Soul of Man Never Dies

Souls Of Mischief: 93 Til Infinity

Billy Joel: All About Soul

Jewel: Who Will Save Your Soul?

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Keep A Little Soul

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic: What is Soul?

Bob Marley: Soul Rebel

David Bowie: Soul Love & Lady Grinning Soul

The Doors: Soul Kitchen

Billie Holiday: Body And Soul

Righteous Brothers: Soul & Inspiration

[sirtravisjacksonoftexas]

Was Jesus a Mythical Figure Based on the Mesoamerican God Quetzalcoatl? Um, NO, and here is why:

Quetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican god who at times was depicted as a feathered serpent or dragon. This dragon god was considered benevolent, though he did sacrifice some of his divine brethren. He was at times the mortal enemy of the Sun god Tezcatlipoca, while at other times they worked together. Indeed, each of their fights resulted in the destruction of a world, only for them to work together to make a new one. Their feud also resulted in the extinction or near extinction of the Toltecs, Quetzalcoatl’s people. After Tezcatlipoca massacred them and stripped Quetzalcoatl of most of his powers, the dragon god fled over the sea to the west, though he promised that he would return. The Aztecs (supposedly) thought that Cortez, who arrived in 1519, was himself Quetzalcoatl.

They thought wrong.

What followed was a war of two empires; Aztec and Spanish. Cortez’s conquistadors, along with their Native American allies (all of whom wanted to be free of their yoke) crushed the Aztec army. 

Along with this, a new God-Jesus-replaced the gods of the Aztecs.

Jesus Mythicists, however, beg to differ on the latter point.

You see, some of them believe that Quetzalcoatl, the plumed dragon god of Mesoamerica…was the basis for Jesus. Indeed, they believe that, contrary to the historical consensus (and tons of ancient evidence) that Jesus never existed, being purely a mythical figure based on Quetzalcoatl.

Are they right?

 Um, do blue whale’s live in the Sahara?

Both questions are answered with a big fat NO.

Let’s see why the idea is flawed, shall we?

1. Incarnate god?

Yes, Quetzalcoatl was born as a human named Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. He was also born as the hero Kukulkan (he was identified with the god Kukulkan, another name for Quetzalcoatl). However, it is believed that both heroes are one and the same. He was considered a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl, just as Kukulkan was considered a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl.

Interesting parallel, right?

Um, keep reading…

 2. Virgin Birth?

In one myth, he was born by Ometeotl, a god who was actually two gods in one (the god Ometecuhtli and the goddess Omecihuatl). This androgynous entity didn’t seemingly have sex with another god or goddess in order to conceive Quetzalcoatl, but considering that it was reality two gods in one, a male and a female in one…well, let your imagination run with that.

As mentioned earlier Quetzalcoatl was thought to have been born among mortals as well. In one version of the myth, a woman named Chimalman was magically impregnated by her husband Ce Tecpatl Mixcoatl (a leader of the Toltec-Chichimec tribe) by means of an arrow. The resulting child was Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. 

Sounds like a virgin birth, right?

Wrong.

For one, the myth about Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl was heavily altered by the Aztecs. His mother and father eventually were thought to be gods instead of mere humans, he was later thought to have been raised by the goddess Quilaztli, and…he was later thought to have been conceived by a magic arrow. Originally, none of this was the case. 

Plus, we have to remember that his mother and father were married, and thus might have had sex before the arrow event. Also, who is to say that his mother didn’t have sex before the marriage (what if she was married before? Its not impossible that she was a widow or perhaps a little loose). 

Thus, no proof of a virgin birth. Sexless for sure (in a later version of the myth), but not virgin.

3. Star proclaimed his birth?

No.

  4. Visited by wise men?

No. BTW: the Wise Men are never stated to be kings in the Bible (Matthew 2:1-16). They were astrologers, not kings. Think about this before you bring up the “Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl’s father visited him after he was born, and he was a ruler, just like the three kings who visited Christ” faulty comparison up.    

5. Someone sought his death after he was born?

Before he was born, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl’s mortal father, Ce Tecpatl Mixcoatl was murdered by rivals. Ce Acatl Topiltzin grew up in exile, only to later come back and lay the smackdown on his father’s killers. 

There is nothing that states that these murderers sought his life after he was born.    

 6. Taught in a temple as a boy?

No.

  7. Son of a god?

In his divine form he was the son of Ometeotl, the androgynous creator god. In his human form, he was considered the son of mortal parents, despite the magic nature of his conception (how the heck does that work?).

  8. Trinity?

Prepare to be confused.

Mesoamerican gods are…complicated. You can already see this with Ometeotl, who is actually two gods in one (which is strikingly similar to the concept of the Trinity). Likewise, some gods and heroes were thought to be manifestations of other gods. Ehecatl, a version of Quetzalcoatl worshipped by the Huastec tribe, was thought by some to not merely be Quetzalcoatl, but a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl. Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl was another. Kukulkan, another hero, was also thought to be his manifestation (though as previously mentioned, he’s thought to be one and the same as Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl). Xolotl, a god of Venus, was also thought to be a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl. So was Xolotl’s twin brother (and fellow god of Venus) Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (in some versions of the myth, Xolotl was a manifestation of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, thus a manifestation of a manifestation of Quetzalcoatl. In others, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was a manifestation of both Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl. In others, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli and Xolotl are simply twins).

Just wait; it gets more complicated.

Remember mean old Mr. Tezcatlipoca? Well, funny thing; when Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli got into a fight with the sun god Tonatiuh, and received a dart to his head for his troubles, he morphed into the god Itztlacoliuhqui, who was himself a manifestation of… Tezcatlipoca! Indeed, Quetzalcoatl, the enemy of Tezcatlipoca, is himself a manifestation of Tezcatlipoca! According to some scholars, all the Aztec creator gods and goddesses were manifestations of Tezcatlipoca! The Aztecs believed that he had more manifestations than any other god (and as seen with Quetzalcoatl, some of these manifestations had manifestations of their own). 

This gives “mental gymnastics” a whole new meaning. 

Some try to remedy this confusion by stating that Quetzalcoatl’s true enemy was the Black Tezcatlipoca, another manifestation of Tezcatlipoca proper, but other sources do not make this distinction, and even then, it still a manifestation of Tezcatlipoca fighting another manifestation of Tezcatlipoca. 

Tezcatlipoca is fighting…himself!

Needless to say, Tezcatlipoca had issues. 

 When you put the pieces together, Mesoamerican religion turns out to have many similarities with Hinduism, were some gods are manifestations of others (and all of them manifestations of Brahman). Suffice to say, Mesoamericans had the idea of some deities being manifestations of others, as well as being two or more gods in one (like Ometeotl). However, when it comes to Quetzalcoatl, it doesn’t really translate into a trinity. He had four manifestations to go with his original form. Along with this, he himself was a manifestation of Tezcatlipoca. One could try to make the argument that these are  multiple “persons” in a Mesoamerican version of a godhead (hold that thought), but definitely not three in one. Plus, we also have to remember that neither Jesus Christ nor the Holy Spirit are manifestations of God the Father; they are three distinct persons within the godhead. They are never referred to as being individual gods on their own, or as simple manifestations of other gods. Though Jesus is God the Son incarnate, he is not referred to as a “manifestation” of God the Son, complete with his own unique personality differing from that of God the Son: He’s simply God the Son incarnate. These are the big differences between the Hindu “Trinity” or Trimurti and the Biblical Trinity. The same differences apply when Hinduism is replaced with Mesoamerican myth. 

Sorry, no Trinity. 

 9. Called “Morning Star”

As mentioned above, two of Quetzalcoatl’s manifestations, Xolotl and Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, were gods of Venus. Specifically, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was the god of Venus when it is the Morning star (as opposed to Xolotl, who was god of Venus as evening star). 

Mesoamerica was not unique in this regard; other cultures, including those in the old world, referred to Venus as the “Morning Star”, and thought it was a god.  

True, Jesus does call himself the “bright morning star” in Revelation 22:16, but, though Venus is referred to here, Jesus is not teaching that he is literally Venus, any more than he taught his followers that they were literally salt (Matthew 5:13). Indeed, Jesus is actually referring to a Messianic prophecy In Numbers 24:17, which reads;

“I see him, but not now;

   I behold him, but not near:

a star shall come out of Jacob,

   and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;

it shall crush the forehead of Moab

   and break down all the sons of Sheth.”

Along with this, some rulers were referred to as the “Morning Star”. A king of Babylon was called “Morning Star” in Isaiah 14:12. This is one of the rare instances in the ancient near east where a king was referred to as a star (though in later ancient times this was more commonplace). Thus, this is showing Jesus to be the King, to be Messiah, not literally Venus.

See what happens when you interpret the Bible based on its Jewish context? See what happens when you interpret it by its historical and cultural context, instead of interpreting it by Mesoamerican civilization, which was across the Atlantic Ocean?

 10. Baptized?

No.

 11. Tempted by the Devil?

Tezcatlipoca got the god Quetzalcoatl drunk on wine, which resulted in the latter having sex…with his own sister.

Cue disgusted faces.

In another myth, Tezcatlipoca got Quetzalcoatl to look into his magic obsidian mirror. Quetzalcoatl saw himself as a pale, bearded old man.

Considering that Tezcatlipoca was, among other things, the god of darkness and trickery, one could conceive of these tales as bearing some similarity to the temptation of Christ. However, one has to remember that the differences are legion, including the fact that, unlike Quetzalcoatl…Jesus didn’t give into temptation. Let’s also forget that Satan isn’t a creator god, a sorcerer or omnipotent like Tezcatlipoca. Likewise, Quetzalcoatl isn’t all powerful (pretty obvious) like Christ, or part of a true trinity like Christ.  

12. King? 

 As Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, Quetzalcoatl was the ruler of the Toltecs and founded the city of Tula (Later called Tollan). As the hero Kukulkan, he founded the city of Chichen Itza. He subsequently ruled both. Since the Aztecs had emperors/kings of their own, they would have no doubt thought of Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl as a king. Jesus likewise is a king, but his kingdom is not of this world (John 18:36-37). Though not honored as king by most while he was alive on Earth, Jesus was both king of the Jews (Isaiah 9:6-7, Matthew 2:2, Luke 23:3, John 1:49-50, 18:36-37) and the Divine King (Revelation 19:16).

Big parallel, right?

Wrong.

Keep reading...

13. Carpenter?

No.

 14. Preacher?

No.

 15. Prophet?

No. Quetzalcoatl had to look through Tezcatlipoca’s magic mirror in order to see the future. There were prophecies made about him, but that doesn’t = him being a prophet. He did  promise to return one day, but that’s not a prophecy; it’s a promise. If I promise to bring a dog to your front yard tomorrow and have it take a dump in your flowerbed, does that make me a prophet?

 No, it just makes me a guy whose acting like a jerk. One may try to argue that Quetzalcoatl’s statement is a “prophecy” of sorts, but Quetzalcoatl wasn’t stating that one day another god would arrive, that the Aztec lands would one day flood or that demons would create the IRS and tax the Maya to death; he’s simply saying that he’s going to come back. If you tell your parents that you’re coming home for Christmas, does that make you a prophet? No, it just means that you’re going to come home for Christmas.

16. Miracle worker?

All gods were, big deal.  

 17. Multiplied bread and fish?

No. He brought corn and seeds from Mount Tonacatepetl to his fellow gods. They chewed them all up and then fed them to the first humans.

Not in the same ballpark, folks.

Not by a long shot.

 18. Walked on water?

No.

 19. Raised the dead?

There are two myths to examine in order to answer this question.

According to Mesoamerican myth, there was four previous worlds before the current one. During the age of the fifth sun (and thus the fifth world), Quetzalcoatl (as Ehecatl) was ordered by the gods to get the bones of humans who perished in the deluge that ended the fourth world. In order to do this, he  had to go to Mictlan, an Underworld where the souls of those who died of natural causes went to.

 He obeyed, eventually meeting up with Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl, the god and goddess of the Underworld, respectively. After a short conversation, Mictlantecuhtli plotted to make sure that the bones would never leave his domain.

 First he refused to be parted with the bones unless Quetzalcoatl ran four times around Mictlan while constantly blowing on a conch shell. Mictlantecuhtli didn’t tell him that there were no holes in it, and thus impossible to blow  as a trumpet, but Quetzalcoatl summoned worms to bore holes through it and bees to buzz inside it. Though handing the bones over, Mictlantecuhtli later had a pit dug, which he hoped that Quetzalcoatl would fall into, and sure enough he did. Despite this, Quetzalcoatl succeeded in bringing the bones to the other gods. The earth goddess Cihuacoatl ground the bones up and put them in a clay pot. Then, all the gods cut themselves, pouring their blood on the meal. They used this unusual concoction to make the first humans.

That’s one version of the myth.

In another...Quetzalcoatl’s penis somehow bled, and it was this blood that poured onto the bone paste.

Either way, this is not a resurrection; its simply using bones and blood to create a new human race.

In another myth, Quetzalcoatl (as Ehecatl again) had a fling with the virgin goddess Mayahuel. They made love while in the form of a tree with two branches that were entwined. This didn’t sit with Tzitzimitl, a vicious, no-holds-barred grandmother goddess (Imagine Tyler Perry’s Medea with magical powers and rabies, and you get a good idea what Tzitzimitl was like).

 Enraged and living long before anger management classes existed, Tzitzimitl cut off the branch that represented Mayahuel and fed it to the Tzitzimime, star demons who were prophesied to one day bring about Armageddon. Afterwards, Ehecatl gathered Mayahuel’s bones and planted them. From these sprang the first agave plants (Mayahuel was the goddess of the Agave plant (aka the Maguey plant). The agave plant was her new form to be sure, so it is a resurrection of sorts, but she didn’t resurrect into her regular form. Her bones were still bones, not acquiring new flesh. She just came back to life…as a plant. Indeed, one might argue that this is a re-creation instead of a resurrection. Considering that the bones serve as seeds for the plant, one might consider it both. 

However, it’s a far cry from Jesus, who resurrected people in their human form (Matthew 9:18-26, Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56, John 11:1-44). One could (slightly) better compare this to the rapture, when all Christians who have died will be both resurrected and transformed by Christ, becoming immortal and ageless (1 Corinthians 15:50-56, Philippians 3:20-21, compare with 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), but even then…there is a big difference between a resurrected immortal body…and the agave plant.   

20. Heal the sick?

No.

 21. Cast out demons?

No.

 22. Had disciples?

No. As both Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl and Quetzalcoatl proper, he had the Toltec tribe. As the human Kukulkan, he had the Maya or Maya-Toltecs.

 23. Debated religious leaders of his day?

No.

 24. Betrayed?

A rival faction among his own people removed Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl from power. He left with loyal Toltecs to the Gulf of Mexico. Jesus of course was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver.

Smoking gun?

Um, not quite.

Keep reading…

 25. Betrayers die soon after?

No.

 26. Crucified?

No, the Americas didn’t have crucifixion. It was an invention of the old world. There is a depiction of Quetzalcoatl on a X shaped device, with the god Nanahuatzin coming out of his body, but this seems to be a transformation, not execution. One scholar claimed that Quetzalcoatl was shown to die and resurrect on the Codex Zouche-Nuttall (aka Codex Nuttal) a pre-Columbian text. However, he didn’t describe Quetzalcoatl’s death as supposedly depicted in the Codex Nuttal, let alone a crucifixion (once again, remember that crucifixion is an old-world invention). There is an image of a man tied to a ladder with an arrow in his side in the Codex Nuttal, but the figure in question is not identified as Quetzalcoatl. Plus, being tied to a ladder is far different from being crucified.

27. Resurrected?

As stated above, its been claimed that the Codex Nuttal features the resurrection of Quetzalcoatl. However, once again, its not described, so we don’t know if it matches that of Christ…or if its far, far different. We don’t even know if he is depicted as resurrecting himself (like Christ did) or if someone resurrected him. Indeed, we don’t even know if the term “resurrection” is being used loosely.

In order to find a supposed resurrection, we need to look at myths outside of the Codex Nuttal.

After Quetzalcoatl got drunk and then slept with his own sister, he jumped onto a burning pyre. His ashes became a flock of beautiful birds, while his heart rose skywards, becoming the morning star or Venus.

Is this a resurrection?

Let’s look at those birds first.

If someone turned the hairs of a dead man into clones of William Shatner, would you call that a resurrection?

No, it would simply be making a bunch of stunt doubles for William Shatner. Unless its stated that the dead man’s soul went into that flock of Shatners, its not a bonafide resurrection.

Now let’s look at that heart.

The fact that his heart became Venus does at first seem to indicate some kind of resurrection, due to the fact that the two gods (and personifications) of Venus, Xolotl and Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, were both manifestations of Quetzalcoatl. However, these are just manifestations, not Quetzalcoatl in his usual divine form, and not all versions of Quetzalcoatl’s myth have his heart rising upwards or even has him dying, and yet both Xolotl and Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli are gods of Venus or the morning star in all versions. 

Its in a way a resurrection…but in a way not. 

Indeed, in another myth, Venus (as Quetzalcoatl) rose from the mouth of a monster (though in this one Quetzalcoatl himself is a personification of Venus). No death is involved. This is not the only myth where Quetzalcoatl doesn’t die. In another, he flees his homeland after Tezcatlipoca decimates the Toltecs. Making a raft of snakes, he sets sail, heading east. 

28. Ascended into Heaven?

His heart did rise up into the heavens, becoming the morning star.

A good parallel?

Are Jesus Mythicists right?

Well…only his heart rose into the heavens, not his whole body. Plus, he doesn’t ascend in all of his myths. Its an ascension in a sense…but not on par with Christ’s.

29. Second coming?

Quetzalcoatl claimed that he would return. According to Spanish records, this was thought to have been fulfilled when Cortez arrived in 1519 (Quetzalcoatl was described at times as being white skinned and having a bear. The Spaniards fit that bill). Indeed, he arrived in the same year that it was prophesied that Quetzalcoatl would return, yet another reason why he was mistaken for Quetzalcoatl.

However, most historians now discard the idea that Cortez’ arrival matched that of the “second coming” of Quetzalcoatl. Indeed, it seems to be a later invention.

Um…more on that later.

30. Fights an end time battle?

Quetzalcoatl would return in victory, meaning that he and Tezcatlipoca would again butt heads. Curiously, Cortez, who (according to old Spanish records) was thought at first to have been Quetzalcoatl, led his conquistadors and their native allies to victory against the Aztecs, bringing the worship of Tezcatlipoca to an end (course, he brought an end to the worship of all the other Aztec gods, including Quetzalcoatl).

31. Reigns in a future age?

Quetzalcoatl was to reign in a future age, ruling the world and bringing about global peace (like Christ).

 Wow, we have some “parallels”, don’t we? Incarnate god, son of a god, tempted by the devil, a king, “raised” the dead, betrayed, (kinda) resurrected, ascended, second coming, end times battle and a future reign? Wow, surely Quetzalcoatl was the basis for Jesus…right?

Wrong.

You need to set down.

You see…The New Testament was written in the first century AD. Jesus died in about 30 AD.

When did people from the old world first learn of Quetzalcoatl?

Drum roll…

1519 AD.

The year that Cortez reached the land of the Aztecs.

Question; how could first century Jews base a supposedly fictional Jesus on the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl…when the old world wouldn’t know anything about Quetzalcoatl until around 1500 years later?

Definitely blows the Jesus Mythicist argument away, doesn’t it?

Along with this, we have to remember that the vast, vast majority of pre-Columbian texts were destroyed by the Spanish (only 16 survived). All of the texts we have that speak of Quetzalcoatl (save for maybe the Codex Nuttal) date after the conquest, and were written by both Europeans and native allies of the Spanish. There is evidence that shows that the myths were altered, with Christian elements added to them. Thus, if we find any similarities between Quetzalcoatl and Jesus, its because the Christians who preserved the former’s stories added elements of Jesus to him.

Now, some Jesus Mythicists (particularly those who ignore the fact that Spaniards Christianized Aztec and Maya myths) will try to cry foul, saying that Quetzalcoatl is one of the so-called “Dying and Rising gods” of world myth, which Jesus (according to them) belongs to. Thus, Jesus is in a category of Mythical figures, and thus was a mythical figure, and thus never existed. 

Well, one, they need to not ignore the fact that Christians did alter the myths.

Two, just because Jesus is (supposedly) in the Dying and Rising God category doesn’t mean that he doesn’t exist. Not only is he accepted as historical by a consensus among historians, there are people and even animals that fit mythical or folkloric categories and yet still exist. Magellan fits the Explorer archetype, Harriet Tubman the Mother archetype, Ivan the Terrible fits the Satan Archetype, and gorillas, Himalayan brown bears, Orantugans and Dengiso tree kangaroos fit the “wild man of the woods” motif in folklore. 

Three, they need to realize that the Dying and Rising God mythical category is no longer considered valid. Much of the evidence use to support it turned out to be flawed. Indeed, the consensus among scholars is that there were no so-called Dying and Rising gods before Christianity emerged in the first century. Indeed, the earliest evidence we have for a “dying and rising God” dates a century after Jesus. True, a lot of the gods labeled as “Dying and Rising” gods are older than Christ, but the evidence that shows that they are Dying and Rising gods category postdates the New Testament.

Repeat: Postdates the New Testament. 

 A lot of these gods are older than Christ, but didn’t become so-called dying and rising gods until after Christ (and remember, the category is no longer considered valid). Though still a topic studied in Biblical scholarship, it has no bearing on how religions, including Christianity, arose. 

 Folks, Quetzalcoatl is NOT the basis for Jesus. 

Jesus is real. He is the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and I AM THAT I AM. 

Jesus…is God.

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[louisefogerty]

Yohualtzin’s bedroom layout, from “Sun King Tonatiuh.”

[mythologyfolklore]

Death Goddes Club!

...plus Osiris, who is the only guy, and Iyansa/Oya, because I realised too late that I had chosen the wrong Orisha to draw. Also, a few are missing, because I had no more space to draw the others.   Clockwise, from the top: Hel (Queen of Hel and Niflheim), Persephone (Queen of Hades), Ereshkigal (Queen of Kur/Irkalla), Mictecacihuatl (Queen of Mictlan), Izanami (Queen of Yomi), Tuonetar (Queen of Tuonela), Nirriti (Goddess of Deathly Realms and Sorrow), Giltine (Lithuanian Death Goddess), Mania (Queen of the Etruscan Underworld), Osiris (King of Duat), Oya (Orisha of violent storms and the Niger river, associated with death - again, it's the wrong Orisha!) and Hine-nui-te-po (Goddess of Night and Death). What they're doing? Pretending to play a card game, while they actually chat and giggle.

Persephone: "...And that's the story of how I got it on with my uncle Hades. And it was awesome!" Hel: "...On one hand the incest thing makes it kinda gross, on the other hand this was a really nice story!" Hine-nui-te-po: "At least he didn't lie to her and pretend to be someone else." Mictecacihuatl: "And what about you, Hel? Have you been meeting people lately?" Hel: "Naw, not really. Except that there is this really, really cute Aesir in my domain now and he's so fricken adorable, so innocent, beautiful and the gentlest guy I have ever met! Maybe you know him - it's Baldr Odinnson." Persephone: "Oh, I actually do know him. A real gentleman, but a bit too cutesy for my liking. Then again, that's what you're into, isn't it, Hel?" ;) Hel: *blushes* Osiris: "Wait, so Baldr is dead? Oh dear - I would ask you to give him my condolences, but he's is probably glad to be dead." Izanami: "Why would anyone be glad to be dead? No offense, Hel..." Hel: "None taken." Izanami: "But who would prefer the gloomy underworld over life?" Nirriti: "Sometimes people's life is so hard and difficult, that they embrace death as a release, because they want their suffering to end. If someone is glad to be dead that says a lot about his soul life. Is this Baldr glad to be dead?" Hel: "He is. In fact, he doesn't even want to go back to Asgard. But in a few days his brother will come and ask me to let him go." Osiris: "Raising the dead? That would be against the cosmic order!" Hel: "I know, but try to explain that to these stupid Aesir!" Persephone: "How will you handle it?" Hel: "I will think of something. I'm Loki's daughter after all. And if I got something from my father, it's the quick thinking." Ereshkigal: "We have faith in you, gal! So, Mic, how is it going in Mexico?" Mictecacihuatl: "Oh, a few days ago we had Dios de los Muertes, my special day, and I wanted to go and take a shower, you know, make myself fresh and stuff, and before me Tonatiuh was being a bitch to my husband Mic, about how long he was taking in the shower and stuff." Tuonetar: "Aww, your husband got all pampared up for your special day?" Mictecachuatl: "He did! And stood up to the sun for me! And I was like: Awww, Mic, look at you getting all fancy and clean for my special week! And then I helped him to get all nice and clean for my special celebration!" ^^ Hel: "Aww, aren't you two the cutest couple of death deities there ever was?" Tuonetar: "Not as cute as Tuoni and I!" Persephone: "Hah! Hades and I are cuter than you two!" Osiris: "Ladies! Let's not get into an argument over whose marriage is the cutest!" ^^; Ereshkigal: "That's way too relative anyway. Also, it's unfair to those of us, who aren't married." Hine-nui-te-po: "Oh, it's okay." Giltine: "Yeah, we're good." Persephone: "Mania, you haven't said anything yet. How are things going in Italy?" Mania: "Oh, everything is fine, just my husband getting drunk and setting himself on fire. The usual shenanigans." Persephone: "Uhhh...okay." O_O