#aztec legend

[briefbestiary]

The water-dwelling beast whose hand drags humans beneath the water's surface.

[cryptids-of-the-world]

Quetzalcoatl is a winged snake god found in Aztec mythology. Quetzalcoatl is described as a winged snake with beautiful colored feathers and was known to devour people. It was believed that Quetzalcoatl carried the sun across the sky and back down into the underworld at night; he is also the god of the sky, wind, clouds, and water. Quetzalcoatl has a bird named after it being the Resplendent Quetzal and each color of its feathers represents something. The turquoise colored feathers represent the sky and vegetation, and the red feathers represent fire. It is also said that the snake was a symbol of rebirth to the Aztec people due to snakes shedding their skin. Quetzalcoatl also represented sexual duality with his masculine nature being his snake form and his feminine nature being god over the water and wind. 

[nerdwingarts]

Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl

[nahualowebcomic]

In the times of old, in a time when mankind doesn´t exist, our people, the survivors of the four suns built wonders, one of this wonders are the Tepoxcualoyotzin, the ones who serve, the great wise men of our people, built from the wood, blood and stone, the guardians of our sacred sites.

We forget the knowledge of their creation, and in their ruins of our people, the old guardians stand, always watching, a reminder of the things we lost when humanity come to this world.

Words from the Xantilmeh.

[nahualowebcomic]

"OLLIMEZTLI, THE FINAL AGE"

"And so it was said by the ancient wise men, those who lived to tell this to the children of their children.

The goddess Cihuacoatl wanders the earth without windows, where the black sun

shines on those who eat the bones of the dead

Throwing screams incessantly, lost in the darkness, aimlessly, corrupted in its essence.

Therefore, the man of maiz should do penance , because the door was sealed.

No peace for the dead, here on earth, must grieve for the iniquity of the few, the many will suffer.

And others will came beyond the Great Salt Lake, to plant their seeds, to irrigate them with the blood of our people.

The children of maiz, lost, drunk will, slaves in their own land.

The earth will stain with red, the sky it becom black smoke, everything will become bitter

She whispers and scream, will be around in the dark against us.

And the beast of the beginning of time ...............  will devour the world

Black is the night, cold is the wind, Ollimeztli, the last era is coming !.

Final fragment of "The Songs of Tezontemoc" translation by Ocelotl Martin (1496-1537)

[sakizm]

I'm sitting in my art appreciation class and my professor mentions the Aztec legend of the two star-crossed lovers, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl while showing at statue an artist made based off that legend.

The man goes off to war and "dies". The woman is devastated and dies from grief.

And that the two mountains near Tenochtitlán (Mexico City) are named after them.

...My mind automatically thinks of the Cave of Two Lovers, Oma and Shu from ATLA. About how similar the two stories are.

Makes me want to go watch Avatar again...but I have homework. :C