several failed attempts, the gods ordered to Nanahuatzin that jump, which he did immediately. Shortly thereafter, Nanahuatzin raised and appeared as the Fifth Sun on the horizon, but right away, on the East appeared Tecucciztecatl also converted into Sun. The gods talked and concluded that there could not be two Suns, so they took a passing by rabbit and threw it on the face of Tecucciztecatl, to overshadow its light and it became the moon.
Despite all what had been done by the gods, the Sun had no movement. The gods talked again and concluded that all of them should be sacrificed, jumping into the fire, to give life and movement to the Fifth Sun. The only that did not want to jump was Xólotl, but was chased by Quetzalcoatl and even tried to evade his destiny by turning into corn, maguey and Axolotl. The sacrifice of gods resulted in the creation and the life of the Fifth Sun. The divinities had to be sacrificed so that humans could live. Hence the name given to the macehualli people or macehual, which means in Nahuatl "Deserving of the Gods sacrifice". Philosophically, this explains the deep sense of sacrifice that life had for anahuacas and in the contemporary Mexican life. The gods were sacrificed give life and human beings "fed" the gods through their "spiritual" sacrifice. This concept belonged to the Classical period, being that Tlacaelel, Aztec Cihuacoátl, changed spiritual sacrifice for material sacrifice, at the end of the Postclassical period. But this will be discussed later.
"Confirming the myths, these pictures highlight the essential role played by men in the maintenance of cosmic harmony only ensured by constant spiritual regeneration." (Laurette Séjourné. 1957)
It can be established, in the legend of the five Suns, how the ancient Mexican in a metaphorical way, talk about evolution and a series of processes in the search for better stages of human development. This non-linear evolution awareness, intervened by opposite and complementing forces of the universe and
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