After looking through the many cultures we learned about the one that stood out to me the most was the Aztec Empire. The Aztec’s society was based on their complex religious beliefs. In those beliefs the Aztec’s believed that the gods had created the era or also known as sun that they lived in. They created this era in a city called Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico. Furthermore in their culture they believed the world would cease to exist if they did not do such rituals as blood-letting and human sacrifice. This society also believed that the world had been created many times and they were living in the fourth or fifth world. The concept of a world being created many times over is something I found interesting almost like a creator
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They believed that one day while doing housework that an earth goodness known as Coatlicue was impregnated by a ball of feathers. This led to Coyolxauhqui and 400 stars of the southern sky to try and kill Coatlicue which they did by slicing off her head but her unborn child Huitzilopochtl leaped from her body fully grown and killed Coyolaxuhqui with obsidian and chopped her and her brothers which is said to be a metaphor for the way the sun overrides the moon and stars when it rises each morning. Huitzilopochtl led the Aztec’s to the city of Teotihuacan where they discovered a cactus with a red fruit on top as well as they saw an eagle with its wings stretched out and a snake in its mouth. The Aztecs believed that the red fruit was a symbol of the human heart. Even in the current modern times in the republic of Mexico an eagle, snake, and cactus are the national emblems. It’s quite a powerful thing that these stories and symbolism from ancient times still have a place in modern times and lasted this long.
In conclusion, the Aztec empire was short-lived but the emblems of the republic of Mexico being an eagle, snake and cactus prove that it is everlasting. The Aztec empire ended in around two years after their arrival in Mexico. The Spanish conquistadors and their allies overran Tenochtitlan and build their own capital Mexico City over it and built their own cathedral on the area of Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct. Despite all of this the Aztec empire lives on in emblems and in the history books forever which makes it a very interesting and long-lasting
They believed that one day while doing housework that an earth goodness known as Coatlicue was impregnated by a ball of feathers. This led to Coyolxauhqui and 400 stars of the southern sky to try and kill Coatlicue which they did by slicing off her head but her unborn child Huitzilopochtl leaped from her body fully grown and killed Coyolaxuhqui with obsidian and chopped her and her brothers which is said to be a metaphor for the way the sun overrides the moon and stars when it rises each morning. Huitzilopochtl led the Aztec’s to the city of Teotihuacan where they discovered a cactus with a red fruit on top as well as they saw an eagle with its wings stretched out and a snake in its mouth. The Aztecs believed that the red fruit was a symbol of the human heart. Even in the current modern times in the republic of Mexico an eagle, snake, and cactus are the national emblems. It’s quite a powerful thing that these stories and symbolism from ancient times still have a place in modern times and lasted this long.
In conclusion, the Aztec empire was short-lived but the emblems of the republic of Mexico being an eagle, snake and cactus prove that it is everlasting. The Aztec empire ended in around two years after their arrival in Mexico. The Spanish conquistadors and their allies overran Tenochtitlan and build their own capital Mexico City over it and built their own cathedral on the area of Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct. Despite all of this the Aztec empire lives on in emblems and in the history books forever which makes it a very interesting and long-lasting