Fifth World (mythology)
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The Fifth World is the present world in several Native American including the Aztec and the Navajo.
Aztec mythology
In Aztec mythology, our age (Nahui-Ollin), the fifth age, or fifth creation, escaped destruction due to the sacrifice of Nanahuatl (the smallest and humblest of the gods) who transformed himself into the Sun by leaping into a fire.[1] Another god, known as Tecuciztecatl, originally boasted that he would become the sun but was fearful of the pain. Humiliated by Nanahuatl's sacrifice he too leapt into the fire and became the moon. This myth is associated with the ancient city of Teotihuacan, which was abandoned but still extant when the Aztec arrived.
Notes
{{Reflist} Modern day Aztec and Mayan preached that the world would not end at the age of the beginning of their Sixth Sun era.
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- ^ Chalmbers Spence, James Lewis Thomas (1913). The Myths of Mexico and Peru: Aztec, Maya and Inca. pp. 69, 77.