
concept related to the original American cultures. The new humanity
corresponds closely to an ancient Aztec and Mayan myth called Ollin Toniatiuh, or the myth of the Fifth Sun
According to ancient manuscripts, songs and traditional stories, there were four suns before the sun today. Sol
Each corresponded to one of four key elements: water, earth, fire and air, and with each cycle, there a new earth with its flora and fauna, and his new humanity.
Each of these cycles ended with a cataclysm during which all life was destroyed, to be reborn, more evolved.
With the Fifth Sun, also known as the Sun of Quetzalcoatl, the gods planted the seeds of a new humanity on Earth that would be governed by the same legendary Quetzalcoatl.

At the time of birth of Quetzalcoatl, the wise elders who were also warriors Toltecs, prophesied that the only way to survive the cataclysmic end of each cycle millennium was to have wisdom and a heart as firm as a rock.
For Mexica culture, the "Creation" was in a succession of several worlds, which had already suffered a previous destruction.



In Teotihuacan, "City of the Gods", named for the Aztecs to rediscover it, thought there was born the Fifth Sun, which, according to all the gods had participated "The Movement. Teotihuacan curious that, as Christians, had a cross, representing the four cardinal points, corresponding to one of the deities governing the four corners of the world.



Emblem prehispanic Mexico. (The eagle devouring a white dove shining in the sun.)
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