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entered Mictlan seeking bones with which to create humans, Mictlantecuhtli was waiting. He asked Quetzalcoatl to travel around Mictlan four times blowing a conch shell with no holes. Quetzalcoatl eventually put some bees in the conch shell to make sound. Fooled, Mictlantecuhtli showed Quetzalcoatl to
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The myth recounts the following. From Cipactli's hair sprang trees, flowers and plants, from her skin sprang plains, valleys and river sediments, from her eyes came wells, caves, and fountains, from her mouth sprang rivers, lakes and streams, from her nose came valleys, ranges and mesas, from her
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shoulders the saw-toothed mountain ranges, volcanoes and mountains. As they organized the universe horizontally and vertically, the four creator gods forged the pairs of gods who would control each area of power: the water (
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the bones. But Quetzalcoatl fell into the pit and some of the bones broke. The Aztecs believed this is why people's height are different.
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take shape within the Nahua worldview of space and time as parts of a universe composed of living forces. According to
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Warriors who died in battle and those who died as a sacrifice went east and accompanied the sun during the morning.
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The journey from the first level to the ninth is difficult and takes four years, but the dead are aided by the
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Mictlan also features in the Aztec creation myth. Mictlantecuhtli set a pit to trap Quetzalcoatl. When
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fig in Hindu mythology. These trees impeded the joining of the Overworld (the higher world) and the
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and Ometecuhtli, whose children became the creator gods. The names of these creator gods were
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Hall, Linda B. (1975). "The Cipactli Monster: Woman as Destroyer in Carlos Fuentes".
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People who died of drowning — or from other causes that were linked to the rain god
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Stross, Brian (1983). "Oppositional Pairing in Mesoamerican Divinatory Day Names".
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This article is about the Aztec underworld. For the archaeological site, see
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In addition to Mictlan, the dead could also go to other destinations:
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went to the west and accompanied the sun when it set in the evening.
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The nine regions of Mictlán (also known as Chiconauhmictlán) in
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Mictlampa, the Northern hemisphere of Mictlan according to the
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mythology, in the beginning, there were two primordial gods,
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Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
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Soustelle, Jacques (Patrick O'Brian, translator) (1961).
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in Norse mythology, Jian Mu in Chinese mythology or the
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(1994). 387:and Tlalcíhuatl), fire ( 38:. For the wrestler, see 1267:Aubin Manuscript no. 20 1402:Lienzo Antonio de León 450:The Soldier of Mictlán 312: 219:Nahuatl pronunciation: 34:. For the rapper, see 1562:Codex Totomixtlahuaca 1502:Relación de Michoacán 1452:Códice Maya de México 1437:Matrícula de Tributos 1362:Codex Fejérváry-Mayer 807:Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli 505:Smith, M. E. (2009). 485:Smith, M. E. 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Index

Mictlan
Mitla
Mike Mictlan
Mictlán (wrestler)
Aztec civilization

Aztec society
Nahuatl language
Religion
Mythology
Philosophy
Calendar
Medicine
Human sacrifice
Tenochtitlan
Templo Mayor
Aztec history
Aztlán
Warfare
Codices
Aztec script
Aztec Empire
Tlaxcallan
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Moctezuma II
Fall of Tenochtitlan
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