Centzonmīmixcōa
In
the goddess of the seas.According to the Manuscript of 1558, section 6, these 400 'Cloud-Serpents' were divinely slain [transformed into stars] in this wise; of their five protagonists:
- Cuāuhtli-icohuauh ('Eagle's Twin') "hid inside a tree";
- Mix-cōātl ('Cloud Serpent') "hid within the earth";
- Tlo-tepētl ('Hawk Mountain') "hid within a hill";
- Apan-teuctli ('River Lord') "hid in the water";
- their sister, Cuetlach-cihuatl, "hid in the ball-court."
From this ambuscade, these 5 slew the 400.[3]
In Ce Tecpatl, after the Creation of the Fifth Sun in Teotihuacan, Camaxtle-Mixcoatl, one of the four gods, ascended to the Eighth Heaven and created four men and one woman to feed the Sun, but barely formed, they fell into the water, they returned to the sky and there was no war; frustrated by this attempt, Camaxtle struck a cane on a rock, and at the blow, 400 Chichimecs Mimixcoa[1] sprouted that populated the earth before the Aztecs. Camaxtle was able to do penance on the rock, drawing blood with maguey spikes, tongue and ears, and prayed to the gods that the four men and one woman created in the eighth heaven would come down to kill the barbarians to feed to the Sun.[4]
The four men and one woman created in the Eighth Heaven are the five Mimixcoa who would later sacrifice the 400 Mimixcoa called
In Ce Tecpatl, the
Anciently, in the North, there was a place of origins called
Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl.[5]— Burr Cartwright Brundage
The Aztec gods of the southern stars are the Centzonhuītznāhuah, according to the Florentine Codex.
References
- ^ a b Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas (The History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings; 1941; 216)
- ^ a b Leyenda de los Soles (Legend of the Suns; 1945; 122)
- ^ Miguel León-Portilla & Earl Shorris: In the Language of Kings. Norton & Co., NY, 2001. p. 60
- ^ ISBN 978-607-16-3216-6.
- ISBN 0-292-72427-6.