Aztec Mythology

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Aztec Mythology is the mythology of the Aztec civilization, which dominated Central Mexico before the Spanish colonization in the early 16th century.

In Toaru Majutsu no Index, Aztec mythology is used as a base for Magic, mostly by Magicians originating from Central America.

Principles

Aztec mythology is a polytheistic system, with a pantheon of various deities. It also describes the earlier Tollecs as the origin of their culture and their intellectual predecessors.

Among a number of creation myths is that of the Five Suns, which concerns a cycle of creation and destruction with four worlds having preceded the current world, each having ended due to a catastrophe and being named after an element of their end. At the start of the current, fifth age, the gods gathered to choose who would sacrifice themselves to become the new sun. Proud Tecuciztecatl was meant to sacrifice himself, though when the time came he couldn't walk into the fire. Nanahuatl, the smallest and humblest of the gods, jumped into the flames instead, sacrificing himself to set the sun in motion. Shamed, Tecuciztecatl followed him into the fire and became the moon.

Human sacrifices play a key role in Aztec culture, as offerings to the gods, who sacrificed themselves to give the world life, and to ensure the survival of the sun and the world.

Uses of Aztec Mythology within the story

• Five Suns: A myth concerning a cycle of creation and destruction, in which four worlds (and Suns) are said to have come before the present world.
  • The 'first sun' is one of the Phases.
  • The grimoire Moon Rabbit is based on a legend linked to the creation of the Fifth Sun where, after Tecuciztecatl's cowardice, one of the gods threw a rabbit in the face of the moon created from his sacrifice so that it wouldn't be as bright as the sun created from Nanahuatl's sacrifice.
• Mixcoatl: The god of the hunt, war and the Milky Way.
  • Mixcoatls are the names of aircraft used by the Return of the Winged One.
• Ocelotl: Jaguars (and jaguar warriors who style themselves after them), associated with Tezcatlipoca who commanded them to eat the first humanity following to loss of the first sun.
  • Marian Slingeneyer uses Dáinsleif to summon Ocelot by cutting away the 'first sun' Phase.
• Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli: The god of the morning star, the planet Venus.
  • Etzali makes use of an obsidian dagger - a replica of the spear held by the god, which uses the light of Venus to disassemble targets.
• Xiuhcoatl: A fire deity in the form of a serpent.
  • Xiuhcoatls are the ultimate weapons of the Return of the Winged One, consisting of a satellite, originally meant to preserve the sun, which delivers orbital bombardment and several surface craft which act as antennas.

Aztec-based Organizations

• Return of the Winged One (magic cabal)

External Links

• Aztec mythology (Wikipedia article)