Aztec creation story

In the beginning of time, the earth crumbled into ashes and all the living people were devoured by the jaguars. And after all the people were devoured, and gone forever, the horrible destruction ended with ferocious earthquakes, as the earth was dying, the sun was dying with it!

One thousand years later, the god Quetzacoatl, the god of the Feathered Serpent, awoke to find his beautiful earth turned into ashes. So he created a new race of people from the drab and grey of the ashes. These people would live on the fourth world in the age of the 'water sun'. These people that Quetzacoatl created were very greedy, greedier than he wanted them to be. So, as a punishment all the people that lived on the fourth sun, were turned into fish, in a terrible flood!!

Every one was turned into fish, except for two people, these two people were spared by the gods. These two people were called Teta and Nena, they were husband and wife. These two were spared because before the floods the gods visited them with their voices when they were working in the fields. The gods told them that there would a flood, and that all the creatures would drown, and the people would turn to fish! Teta and Nena were very scared, and they asked what they could do to live.

'Find a tall hollow, and hide in it, if you do that you shall live! But if you should tell anyone else, you shall not be spared, and when the waters are gone, you may come out, and walk on the earth once again. While you are hiding, you must only take one corn cob, do not be greedy, as your fellow people are!'

And with that the voices were gone! Teta and Nena did as the voice told them. They took one corn cob, and found a hollow tree to hide in. One hour later, they looked up into the sky, and all they saw was dark grey clouds, looking as if they were about to burst. The grounds were already flooded, and in the water they could see what used to be their village!!!

Now since the fourth world was gone, the gods had to make a fifth world. The Gods were very careful in making the fifth world. They did everything they could do to finish it, they had animals in the fields, they put Teta and Nena in the village, and they made more people with the bones of the drowned animal bones. All the gods needed to do was to make a sun. They had to have a sun, as with no sun the seeds cannot grow into plants. So they got together to discuss the making of a sun. Making a sun takes a lot of time and effort. But it wasn't only the gods' job to make the sun, the gods had to have offerings from the people who they were making the sun for. They usually gave the gods dead branches, cactus needles, and hay. They gave them these gifts because the gods would make the suns with these materials! Then one day later, the people of the fifth sun saw a fire ball shoot across the sky. 'Hooray,' the people cried, "the gods have made us a sun so we can grow our seeds, and make them grow into plants, and we have light to work in the fields with!"

And with that, you have the five worlds, and their five suns.