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List of The Weirdest Births in Mythology and Legend

In Mythology and Legend... We have readed and being surprised, by all the stories about The Gods and Goddesses; Monsters, Heroes and Heroines; including their loves, troubles; sufferings, and personal sacrifices. Now, as an homenage to all the lovely Pagan, Wiccan and Witch Mothers; outhere, (And, as an act of devotion to the Gods and Goddesses...); I made this post, which I hope than you like to read it: You will see names and stories than are already known, to all of us; and others, than aren't than known, but are included; because this list, is not as wide as it should be; for The Pagans, Wiccans and/or Witches Mothers, and for all the fans and knowables in Mythology and Legend!

(Note: This list, is incomplete; but, I will expand it regularlly; until is complete, so... You may need to check it once in a while; and... Don't despair: I'm planning to ended it, in a few months; Okay?... Thank you for your understanding!)

Have fun in reading this list, and... Be prepaper: I classified this stories, from the least to the most weird story of all, according to my own perception! (...You may be in, for one; or more surprises!)

Apollo and Artemis: Artemis (immediately, after been borned), helped to her mother; Leto, to birthed to her twin brother; Apollo, who was borned... Nine days, after her!

Heracles and Iphicles: Hercules, was supposes to born first; but Hera... (or, her daughter; Eileithyia, The Goddess of Childbirth) went to the house of Alcmene, sitted with crossed legs and with ropes over her dress; to avoid the birth... For seven days, Alcmene was struggling in pain, and close to death!Galantis, than was one of Alcmene's servants; tricked to Hera (or, to Eileithyia), to made her believe than the birth already occurred, which stop her to continue to crosses her legs; by the immpression. Heracles and Ificles, could finally born; but... Zeus promised to Hera, than the child of the House of Perseus than will born that day; will be king, and Hera; made than Hercules's Cousin, Euristeus; borne before than Hercacles, so that was why... Heracles, never was a king!

Athena: Was borne from Zeus's forefront, after her father swallowed to his wife; Metis (turned into a fly); to avoid the profecy than she will birth a son, than could dethroned him... Unknowning than Metis, was already pregnant!

Hephaistus: Hera, (jealous to see than Zeus birthed a child, on his own...) focus in do the same procedure; and gave birth to Hephaistus, who... Was borned limp, with an humpback and unactrative; which causes than his mother trowed him of Mount Olimpus, for having an ''Imperfect Child''. (For the ones, than doesn't know: He eventually backed to Mount Olimpus, as a grown man; get his revenge of his mother, and... Gained his place, between The Gods!)

Erichthonius: Hephaistus, made undesire advances to Athena; (when she went to his workshop for weapons) and, in the struggle; Hephaistus's seed, fell over Athena's thighs: She wiped out her thigh, with a piece of wool; trowed it to the earth all disgusted, and; where the stained piece of wool, fell... Erichthonius, was borned. (Gaia, gaved the baby to Athena; telling than she didn't want to raised him, so... Athena raised him, as her adoptive and only son!)

Kartikeya: Parvati, couldn't stand the weight of the baby, so... She transfered him from her body, so he could be birthed, by... Ganga! (The Goddess of The River Ganges: The most sacred of the rivers of India)

Huitzilopochtli: Coatlicue ended pregnant, when she grabbed feathers than felt from the sky; put them in her bosom, (some legends said than was in her waistband) and... PUM!... Pregnant! Her 400 sons, and her daughter; Coyolxauhqui (believing than the child to borne, was product of a relation with a stranger...) they decided to kill her, but in the moment they arrived... Huitzilopochtli, was birthed by Coatlicue; fully grown and armed, to defend to his mother. The rest of the story, well... Is too bloody and violent, to be wrote here!

Perseus: Perseus's Mother, after been bathed in a rain of gold; (Courtesy of Zeus) gave him birth in the tower, where her father put her... Without nobody's assistance, during the childbirth!

Asclepius: Coronis, beloved by Apollo; concieved to Asclepius... But cheated to Apollo with a mortal, while pregnant; and she was killed by Apollo (some versions, says than was Artemis), and Apollo; made the first C-Section in history on Coronis's dead body, to saves to his unborn child, before the fire will consummed her body!

Dionysus: His mother, died when she saw to her lover; Zeus, in his real form (after Hera tricked her in telling to Zeus to show his real self, as a probe of love to her; and to get rid easily of her rival); and Zeus had to rescue the baby from the body of his mother, and put it inside of his thigh: When the pregnancy was complete... Dionysus, was born, AGAIN! (...That gaves to ''Trauma by birth '', a whole new level!)

Garuda: He was born... Out from an egg?!

Phanes: According to the Orphic Mythology... He was the first Deity, created by Chronus (The Time); and he emerged with helmet, with broad and golden wings; from... An cosmic silver egg, entwined by a serpent?

Helen of Troy and her Siblings: She and her siblings, were birthed by her mother; Leda... Of one of the two eggs than she laid, after her encounter with Zeus!

Arcas: His mother, was Callisto; and he was borned, after his mother was turned into a bear. ( A bear... Giving birth... To a baby!)

Adonis: His mother, gave birth to him after she was turned; into... A tree?!

The Kauravas, and their sister; Duhsala: The mother, was pregnant for two years; and when she finally gave birth... It was a very big piece of lifeless meat. That piece of meat, was cut by a sage; into 101 pieces. The pieces, were kept in jars of oil for two years; and each piece... Grew into a child: The Kauravas, and their only sister!

Brahma: From the navel of Vishnu, emerged a Lotus Flower. And, when that same flower opened... Was Brahma, sitted on it! (...Strange, but... A very lovely myth!)

Virabhadra: Was born from Shiva's hair. (If you have seems Shiva's Images... I could believe that could have happen: He has a very abundant, and beautiful hair!)

Ganesh: Parvati, modeling a child from turmeric paste; and... She gave him life!

Sambha: Krishna's son, gave birth to an iron's mace, by the curse of a sage. (...Is one of the few stories than I put here, than makes 100% total senses...)

Jarasandha: Erhm... I only can say, than this story involve two queens eating the halve of a divine mango; and... It gets weirder and a bit disturbing, after that!

Tityos: Elara, was Tityos's mother; and she was hid by Zeus under the earth, to avoided her being the victim of Hera's wrath: The kid growed so big inside of her, than her womb split in two; killing her, and after nine months... He sprungs from the earth. (...Poor Elara!)

Pegasus and Chrysaor: Pegasus and Chrysaor: The Winged-Horse and his brother, couldn't born, because his mother; Medusa, was cursed to never be able to gave birth to her sons; and they finally came into existence, when Perseus killed to Medusa: There is not need, to put the graphic story, here! (...Poor Medusa!)

The Giants: They were borned after Uranus's Blood, fell on Gaia; (The Earth) causing than these very tall beings... Came into existence!

Aphrodite: She was created product of the foam of the sea, caused when Cronus castrated to his father; Uranus, and trowed his parts into the sea.

Heimdall: He was birthed, no from one mother; no... He was birthed, by nine Jotun sisters; which conceived him, with Odin!

Loki: The story about Loki's Birth, says that Farbauti (Loki's Father); hitted to his wife, Laufey (Loki's Mother); with a lightning bolt, and; a time later... She gave birth, to Loki!

Teshub, Tigris and Tasmisu: They were birthed by a male god, after he fighted against another male deity; and... He ended pregnant in a very inusual, and bloody way! (If you want to search that story... Go to the Hittite Mythology, search the names in this paragraph; and readed during daylight, many hours before to going to sleep; 'cause is a very disturbing story: You can thank me later, than I don't describe it; here!)

Fenrir, Jorgmugand and Hel: An story says, than Loki gave birth to these children (I refuse, to call them monsters: Thank you, very much); after he devoured Angrboda's Heart, when she was burned while she was already pregnant, so... That was why they were born! In other stories, they were birthed by Angrboda herself, but in almost all the stories; they were borne in the form known to all of us: Fenrir, as a wolf; Jorgmugand, as a serpent; and Hel, as an half alive-half dead baby girl!

Quetzalcoatl: Three myths, points than he was birthed by a virgin princess: In one myth, after his mother had a dream with the Supreme Deity; Ometeotl, in other myth; his mother ended pregnant, after she swallowed a jade stone, and... In another myth, the same princess gave birth to Quetzalcoatl; after she had her belly pierced ... With an arrow! (AND... There is a myth, where he was miraculous conceived by Coatlicue; after a ball of feathears, fell over her!)

Gaia: She was birthed (presumably, and now; totally accepted), by Chaos: A great formless and empty abyss, made of infinite space!

Uranus, Pontus and The Ourea: Were birthed by Gaia, which conceived them... Without a father: This unusual birth, is call Parthenogenesis (a pregnancy and birth than ocurrs, without intimacy: A virginal birth, than is a very uncommon way to have descendents!)

Atabey: According to Taino Myth, Atabey; who is the Primordial Goddess of Fertility, and The First Being to came into existence; she birthed to... Well... To herself!

And, (For ending this list...) Guabancex and her Siblings: Atabey, one day in the middle of the emptiness and totally alone; she fell deeply asleep (after an uncountable amount of time), and a time later; she waked up, to found out, than... She was PREGNANT! And... She gave birth to six twin babies, without a father, and of diferent sex: Boinayel (God of the Rainy Weather), Marohu (God of the Dry Weather); Itiba Cahibaba (Goddess of Childbirth), Hurakan (God of The Destructive Winds and Enemy of Yocahu), Yocahu (God of Vegetation and of the Cassava's Bread) and... Guabancex (His sister, Goddess of the Wind; of The Rain, of The Breeze and The Hurricane). A virginal birth... Of multiple babies, of different sexes; and twins! (...This myth, gives to the phrase ''Being extremelly fertile''; to AN ENTIRE WHOLE NEW LEVEL!)

This is all, in this list; and... Congrats to all the Mothers of the Pagan, Wiccan and Witch Communities! (AND... Of course: To all the Mother Goddesses around The World, specially to Ma'at, Athena; Aphrodite, Atabey, Guabancex, and... To Gaia!)

Blessed be all of you, always!... So Be It!

#paganism #pagan writings #pagan writer #happy mothers month to all the pagan wiccan and witches moms #pagan goddesses #pagan gods #pagans #pagan #eclectic pagan #ecletic pagan #hellenic pagan #lokean #pagan from the caribbean #than all the pagan wiccan and witches moms have the protection and strenght from the deities always #so be it

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The story of the 5 suns.

To celebrate indigenous peoples day, I wrote my own version of the 5 suns story. With my own alterations to try and fit both fate and my own lore. I do hope you guys enjoy it

Many years ago, the four great gods of Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, and Huitzilopochtli had wanted to create a world and people to inhabit this world. At first there was just water, and the horrid beast that lived in the water: Cipatli. Cipatli devoured anything and everything that entered the waters. So the gods discussed how to be rid of this beast.

"We must kill this beast!" Huitz demanded. The youngest of the siblings was very impatient, and demanded a solution fast. Though didn't seem to have any solution himself.

"They are a powerful beast, how do kill them?" Xipe Totec questioned.

"If we can get them into a vulnerable state, we could all attack them." Quetz, the smartest among them, suggested.

"Let us use some bait to tempt the beast. It thinks of nothing but eating, so a nice tempting meal should work fine." Tezca insisted on his siblings.

Xipe was hesitant at the idea. "What would be a good enough bait for the monster?" He questioned.

"Why not use your leg, Tezcatlipoca? The beast seems to especially love devouring gods, so you yourself should work fine. It is your idea after all." Quetzalcoatl suggested.

"Fine! I shall do so myself." The smoking god decided.

Tezcatlipoca floated himself above the near endless seas that Cipatli made their home, sticking his leg into the waters. The crocodilian monster raced towards the god, ready to devour him. Just as Cipatli leaped towards Tezca, he leaped away, but it had seemed that he was just too slow. Cipatli managed to bite off his leg.

"AAAAH!" The obsidian god yelled out in pain.

Just as Cipatli jumped out into the air to bite Tezca's leg, the other 3 leaped into action. All ganging up on the beast, tearing it apart and killing them.

Tezca gave himself an obsidian prosthetic leg to replace the one he lost. And then, the gods got started on reworking the monster's body into a landmass for the people.

Once the land was complete, the gods decided that they needed a sun to shine in the sky.

"I should be the sun." Tezcatlipoca boasted. "I'm the highest of us gods. No one is more worthy then me."

Huitzilopochtli felt enraged at his brother's boast. Mostly cause he saw himself as the highest.

Quetz was annoyed by her brother's boasts, but also thought the logistics weren't great. "We serve a very important role, brother. Should we not allow another god outside of us four? I think maybe Coyolxauhqui could work."

"No, I insist! I shall be a great sun!" And before any of the other gods could protest, Tezca flew up into the sky and took the form of a black sun.

The sun didn't shine as brightly as the gods had originally expected. The serpent goddess could add disappointment to the feelings she felt about her brother's actions.

"Brother, you're shining pretty dimly up there. Maybe you're not that cut out for it?" She suspected.

"I'm not dim at all! Maybe your eyes need to be checked?" He taunted.

Some of the other gods, who were originally off in other parts of the new world, observed the new Sun.

"Oh there's a nice new light in the sky. Tho, wish we could see more of the earth." Commented Huixtocihuatl, goddess of salt.

"You be quiet you!" Tezca demanded.

While Tezca fulfilled his duty as the sun, Quetz went onto making the humans that'd inhabit this world. The first go around, the people were very large. They didn't seem very intelligent either, but Quetz loved them regardless. The other gods didn't argue with her, tho did wish they were more intelligent.

After a very long time, the gods and people grew accustomed to the dim sun. But Quetz was still annoyed by her brother. After many years of him boasting, she grew tired and decided to act.

"Ok brother, I have had enough of you and your boasting Bull crap!" She yelled. Rising into the sky with her powerful wings, Quetzalcoatl raised up her Macuahuitl, and spiked her brother down onto the earth below!

"Why you piece of shit!" Tezca yelled out. In retaliation, he turned into a huge mighty jaguar and devoured all of the giant humans Quetz created. In shock and horror, Quetz attacked Tezca in response.

Eventually many other gods had to separate the two from their fighting. After this, Quetz took up the role of the sun. The other gods decided to create new humans. These humans were smaller than the originals, and seemed smarter too.

As the sun, Quetzalcoatl shined much brighter then Tezcatlipoca. The humans and gods seemed to appreciate this. Tho Tezca wasn't exactly a fan of this.

Over time, the humans seemed less appreciative of the gods. They slowly stopped praising them, stopped praying and stopped building temples. Many of the gods didn't appreciate this.

"Why have the humans stopped praising us?!" Questioned Huitzilopochtli. "how could they be so ungrateful!?"

"Maybe we aren't as cut out at human making as Quetzalcoatl was?" questioned the water god, Tlaloc.

"Maybe them being smaller is the problem?" The god Xochipilli thought.

Eventually, the humans even stopped being so intelligent. Running almost entirely on base instincts, acting the same as animals.

"I have had enough of these pathetic humans!" Tezca yelled out. "I shall give them a form fitting their actions."

Then the god turned all the humans into monkeys. Seeing this, Quetzalcoatl was outraged! In retaliation, she whipped up a powerful wind storm, destroying most everything on the surface of the earth. Blowing away almost all of the monkeys. Leaving only those who hid in caves or the like.

Quetzalcoatl had stopped being the new Sun, instead continuing her duty of being the one to create humanity.

The gods reconvened in Teotihuacan to decide who'd be a better sun.

"I think our duties are for too important to let them go to be the sun." Stated Xipe Totec. "We should have a god outside of us 4 fulfill the duty."

"Who would be able to do such a thing?" Questioned, Tezca.

"I think I know a very good candidate for such a duty." Huitz said confidently, as he raised himself up. "My good friend Tlaloc would be more than worthy of fulfilling such a duty."

"Maybe he would be a good fit?" Considered Quetzalcoatl. "We have other rain gods to help fill the void he'd leave while as sun."

"Tlaloc you say? His wife is very beautiful, but demanding. Are we sure this would not upset her?" Tezca commented.

"She shall be fine!" Huitz insisted. "Beside, I shall help make time for them to meet up on occasion."

And so the other gods agreed, albeit somewhat reluctantly, to have Tlaloc be the next sun. The rain god was honored, and more then ready to attempt to fulfill the duty.

As he was doing so, Quetzalcoatl went about to make new humans again. They were the same size as the previous ones, but already felt more appreciative of the gods then their predecessors.

While Tlaloc was busy with his duty as the sun, Tezcatlipoca saw an opportunity. He went to the now more lonely Xochiquetzal.

Xochi was surprised to see the dark god in her chambers. "Oh, Tezcatlipoca! What brings you here?" She asked.

"Well, I knew that since your husband was busy with his sun god duties, I figured you might be lonely without him around." Tezca explained to her.

Xochi then got a somewhat downtrodden look on her face. "You are correct. However it isn't just his sun duties that make me feel lonely." She expressed.

Tezca raised his eyebrow in curiosity. "Oh? What else could be troubling you?" He asked.

"Even before this, I have seen him talking so closely to my sister Chalchiuhtlicue. I don't know what they speak of, but sometimes he seems to forget about me when this happens. I feel he doesn't have the same love for me anymore." She explains.

"Oh?! How a fool like Tlaloc be so blind as to ignore such a beautiful wife?" He asks, while getting closer to Xochiquetzal. "He has hurt you so much, hasn't he?"

Xochiquetzal nodded her head.

"Would you like to hurt him back? I can help you." Tezca tells her.

The two then started to get intimate.

After some time, Tezca brought out Xochi into the open, in plain view of Tlaloc and the other gods. "Hey Tlaloc! Watch this!" He yelled out.

As Tlaloc and the other gods watched on, Tezcatlipoca and Xochiquetzal kissed passionately in front of everyone.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tlaloc yelled out.

Huitz, was also enraged. "BROTHER! You cannot take away his love like that! I command you stop this immediately!"

"I shall listen to no command from you, little brother!" Tezca responded back.

The new pair then ran off to continue their acts out of sight.

Now in a depressive state, Tlaloc had stopped the rain altogether. The earth started to dry up thanks to this.

With the plants, animals and people struggling to survive thanks to this, the gods struggled to think of a solution.

"I am going to rip his heart out of his chest myself!" Quetz yelled out about Tezca.

"That's not going to help the current situation, sister." Xipe stated.

Quetzalcoatl also held the youngest of siblings, Tlazolteotl, with her. When not creating and watching over humanity, she also helped care for the young goddess.

"You do not do that with someone's wife!" Huitz yelled. "He deserves retribution!" He demanded.

"We can consider that another time. This drought is a much bigger problem." Xipe tried to tell his siblings.

In the meantime, many humans would beg for Tlaloc to bring about rain. Most were persistent that with time he'd return the rain. However some had lost faith, and turned to other ways to help. One village decided to sacrifice one of their own to the underworld lord, Mictlantecuhtli. This female sacrifice would give her life to protect her family, and would eventually go on to become the lady of the dead, Mictecacihuatl.

Unfortunately, the begging from the majority of humans would grate on Tlaloc. He grew tired and decided enough was enough.

"Oh, you demand rain so much?! Fine! Then you shall have it!" He said, before bringing forth a rain of fire to destroy the land, and its people.

In the midst of this, he did not see Quetzalcoatl coming in, enraged at his actions. Just like with Tezca, she spiked him out of the sky and onto the scorched earth below with her Macuahuitl.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHY ARE YOU DESTROYING THE LAND?!" She questioned him.

"I have had enough of the humans constantly begging for rain. This is what they get." Tlaloc said back.

All this got him in return was a threatening look from Quetzalcoatl. But before she could continue any attacks, the other 3 great gods came in.

"It is clear we need a different sun god." Xipe Totec stated. "You made a good effort, but we shall be trying with someone else instead."

Tlaloc then decided to return to his realm of Tlalocan and forget about this. But before he could, Tezcatlipoca still had something to say.

"Before you leave. You should know, Xochiquetzal birthed your child. At least I assumed she's yours. It is far too early to be mine." He stated.

Surprised at this, Tlaloc went off to get the child. He may have lost the marriage with Xochiquetzal, but he refused to lose his child too. The child was the goddess of drought, fittingly, and was named Atlacoya.

In the scorched remains of the earth, Quetzalcoatl found the body of a burnt bird-like animal. She felt horrible for the creature, and taking pity on it, used her blood to bring it to life. This would turn the animal into the wind deity, Ehecatl.

Meanwhile, in Tezca's realm of Mictlampa, a lone human found himself in the God's presence after death. The human had cursed the sun in his last moments. Tezca had found respect in this, especially since he still harbored Ill will towards Tlaloc in regards to Xochiquetzal. So in gratitude, he had made the human into his second, Tepeyollotl.

After the dust was settled, the water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, Tlaloc's new wife, took the role of the sun next.

The goddess took to caring for the humans, giving them all the water they needed.

While Chalchiuhtlicue excelled at being the new Sun, Quetzalcoatl decided humanity was in need of a new food source. She had discovered an ant carrying a corn kernel, and so disguised herself as another ant to follow behind. Then Quetz eventually discovered a mountain of food, mostly maize.

"Oh so much food! I should take these back to the humans. They could use this food.

As time went on with the humans being so appreciative to Chalchiuhtlicue, Tezca started to become suspicious of her.

"Chalchiuhtlicue" Tezca called out.

The water goddess was suspicious of him, knowing what he had done to her husband. "What do you want?" She asked.

"Why do you spoil the humans so much? What did they do to earn this?" He questioned.

"There was no earning." Chal stated. "I just appreciate them and their prases. Humans like being treated well."

"Oh? Could it be that you're only doing this to take all their attention for yourself!?" He accused her.

Chalchiuhtlicue was so very hurt by this accusation. "H-how dare you!?" She yelled. Before crying an endless amount of tears. Flooding the earth, and ending humanity once more.

Quetzalcoatl had grown more and more impatient with her brother, Tezcatlipoca. "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, BROTHER! I will have no more of this!"

"Enough you say? Ha! You're too soft, birdie! Growing so attached to these humans. It only clouds your mind." Tezca said to her.

Quetzalcoatl, growing impatient, attacks him. Breaking off his prosthetic and attacking him with it. "No more! I will not allow you to end humanity anymore! Be gone to your Mictlampa! We do not need you to create the next world." She yelled.

"Fine, I'll leave. But I shall return, and you'll regret this." He stated.

Most of the gods went about trying to pick a new Sun. But Quetz, growing tired of making humans over and over, decided to do some recycling.

She went to the gates to Xibalba, and was greeted by her twin, Xolotl.

"Sister!" Xolotl exclaimed excitedly. "It's great to see you!" She said, hugging Quetz.

"It's great to see you too, Xolotl." Quetz responded in kind.

"What brings you here?" Xolotl asked.

"Well, I wish I could say it was just to visit, but I need to get in there." Quetz told her twin.

"Oh?" Xolotl said, cocking her head like a dog's. "Whatever for?"

"Our brother Tezca has caused the end of another earth, and I grow tired of making humans from scratch. So I have decided to just bring the bones of humans back from Xibalba to speed it up." She explains.

"Ooooh. I don't think that's a great idea" Xolotl says in response.

"Well that's where you come in!" Quetz says. "I need you to help me in, and to distract the lords of Xibalba so I can get the bones and get out." Quetz explained to her sister.

"Oh! That should work then!" Xolotl says.

Meanwhile, as this was happening. Coyolxauhqui saw that this time most of the gods were more preoccupied then others and saw this as an opportunity. "Too long have you angered us, mother." Coyo says to herself. "Why does he get so much of your love?! And we get almost nothing?!"

Her sister, Malinalxochitl grew worried. "Coyo, it is not wise to just attack mother. You know Huitzilopochtli will retaliate in kind."

"I DO NOT CARE!" Coyo yelled out. "He is just a spoiled brat! He is not the all powerful being he claims himself to be, I shall destroy both him and mother!"

Back in Xibalba, Xolotl was successfully distracting Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl. Giving Quetz the chance to steal the bones.

As she picked up the bones, a small figure revealed herself to Quetz. "Oh! You must be the princess." Quetz said, addressing the young goddess.

The princess of Xibalba, Nexoxcho, stood in front of Quetzalcoatl. She was still young and so was also still very small.

"Young lady. If you could just go back and return to your chambers, that'd be apprec-"

"MOTHER! FATHER! THE BONES ARE BEING STOLEN!" The princess screamed out to her parents.

Quetz could only make an annoyed face in response to this.

She and Xolotl found themselves in front of the queen and king of Xibalba.

The skeletal figure of Mictlantecuhtli was very annoyed by this development. "What is the meaning of this?!"

"I need to recreate humans again, and I have grown tired of creating them from scratch, so I decided to recycle some bones." Quetz answered honestly.

The queen whispered in her husband's ear. He seemed to roll his eyes in response to what she said, but still agreed. "Ok, we shall give you the bones. But only if you play our shell, while dancing in a circle 3 times." The king said.

"Y'know, weird things like this are part of why the hero twins killed your predecessors, Mictlantecuhtli." Xolotl said.

"Silence! I am attempting to be reasonable." He explained.

Meanwhile, back in the heavens, the primordial goddess Coatlicue found herself besieged by one of her daughters.

"So this is the thanks I get for raising you?" She states.

"Raising us?!" Coyo yells in frustration. "That's what you call neglecting us, and giving all your favor to that brat?!"

"Enough sister!" Malinal pleaded. "She is not worth the anger."

"No! I shall have the blood that's owed to me" Coyolxauhqui stated

And in an instant, a slash went through Coatlicue's neck. Her head had fallen to the ground.

"Yes!" Coyo yelled in response.

But before she could Celebrate, two enormous snake heads emerge from the stump. "YOU FOOLISH GIRL!" The heads yelled in unison.

Before long, Coyo found herself sliced in pieces. The plasma hot flames of Xiuhcoatl slicing her flesh like butter.

"Sister!" Malinal said in horror.

Huitz was then seen floating the pieces of his elder sister. "What an ungrateful sister. To dare to cut off mother's hea-"

But before he could finish, the pieces of Coyolxauhqui found themselves floating back up together. "What is this?!" He yells out in anger.

"I AM NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!" The floating head of Coyolxauhqui screams.

Back in the underworld, Quetzalcoatl found the shell that Mictlantecuhtli gave her lacked holes. So to remedy this, she dug deep into the ground and grabbed earthworms to drill holes into it. She then called upon bees to make the sound.

When the King and Queen saw she managed to complete the task, she was sent on her way with the bones. But the princess still wanted to pay 1 more trick.

"Dont think you're getting away without one more 'gift' serpent" Nexo said.

Having her mother's attendants dig a pit ahead of Quetz, and placing a Quail at the edge. Quetz tripped and fell into the pit. Causing the bones to snap in the fall.

"Oh no!" Quetz said!

"Wait! Maybe we can still save them." Xolotl said.

They had gathered them back up and then spilling blood upon them, new humans were born.

Meanwhile, in Teotihuacan, Xipe Totec had two gods ready to try and become the sun. They were to throw themselves into a great pyre. However before they could start, Huitzilopochtli, being chased behind by Coyolxauhqui both fell into the pyres.

"What is happening?!" Xipe yelled.

"BROTHER! GIVE ME YOUR HEAD!" Coyolxauhqui said, now burning with ashy flames.

The eagle and jaguar for the ceremony, not realizing what went wrong, lifted both gods into the sky. There, they became the sun and moon. With their constant movement fueled by the chase for vengeance Coyolxauhqui desired.

And that is how the world was created.

Hope you guys liked that story! I don't do this stuff often, but it's still very fun. Lemme know if you want anymore myth retelling.

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whencyclopedia · 2 years

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THE Aztecs of northern Mesoamerica (c. 1345 and 1521 CE) worshipped some of the weirdest, most fantastic and downright scary gods seen anywhere in history. The Aztec civilization and the empire it created revolved around winning special favour with these gods in order to ensure a measure of balance in nature, the continuance of human life and even the daily rising of the sun itself. In this collection we examine 15 gods in detail, looking at the mythology they were involved in and their particular associations such as their special days, numbers and animals. Here are all the major gods from mighty Huitzilopochtli, Hummingbird of the South, and his links with war and eagles to mischievous Xochipilli, the Flower Prince, linked to summer, butterflies and poetry.

The top 15 Aztec gods were:

Huitzilopochtli - the supreme god of the Sun and war.

Tezcatlipoca - the ever-present creator god and patron deity of warriors.

Tlaloc - god of rain, water, lightning, and agriculture.

Quetzalcóatl - god of winds and rain and the creator of humanity.

Coatlicue - the earth-mother goddess.

Tlaltecuhtli - the earth goddess associated with fertility.

Mictlantecuhtli - ruler of the underworld

Tonatiuh - god of the present and fifth Sun.

Coyolxauhqui - goddess of the Moon.

Mixcoatl - god of hunting, the Milky Way, and the stars

Ehecatl - god of air and winds.

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - god who represented a menacing aspect of Venus.

Xiuhtecuhtli - god of fire.

Xipe Totec- god of spring, seeds, and planting.

Xochipilli - god of summer, flowers, love, and dancing.

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samueldelany · 1 month

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Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing. Red Tarot speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking—LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular—presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves. Author Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame—Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui—Marmolejo’s Red Tarot is a profound act of native reclamation and liberation. Each card’s interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author’s divination practice—and reveals tarot as an essential language for liberation.

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nantosueltas · 8 months

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between her fingers • smoking mirror

my obsession with certain characters will take me to wild places lol

if you are new here i have to explain i really like oc x canon interactions, as you can see with all the merida x artio arts. this whole mess started with the arcana game, when i created aradia as a main character for most of the love interest routes.

with time i was able to build aradia's own lore, which is still ✨ under construction ✨tbh but she is still my go-to oc for fun interactions with most of the characters in media i like.

i imagined for a good while how aradia & miguel interactions would be, specially considering their cultural backgrounds, because in the end i don't think there's anything i can do better than exploring stories that have a particular enchantment to them and how they relate to the land, history and, most of all, to the people that are the keepers & the transformative force behind them.

this piece is almost entirely inspired and based on the rich cultural heritage of mexico, miguel's main cultural background (even though he is irish-mexican his character redesign for the movie is entirely mexican, from his features to the mesoamerican-inspired patters in his suit, as stated by lead artist @kristaferanka). i personally headcanon miguel as indigenous or as a mestizo with strong indigenous heritage, which is why i went for nahua mythology as my main source.

(it's important to point out that the nahuas are not the only indigenous people on mexico, i just choose it for a greater familiarity and to create a parallel with aradia's li in her original lore, another oc of mine.)

even though tezcatlipoca & coyolxauhqui do not have a romantic interaction in the stories, it seemed like a good metaphor for both of the characters, due to miguel's anger issues and appearance, which remind me of the jaguar god and aradia's role as a witch with a strong connection to the moon & goddess diana.

the nine emotions (navarasam) mentioned are an echo my earliest drafts and ideas during her creation process, when i imagined her with a south asian background and named her yasmin. from this original concept the most important element that remained were the jasmine flowers as her flower symbol.

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gefdreamsofthesea · 4 months

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I wasn't going to buy this. I told myself, "you are just going to be mad/disappointed when most of the goddesses are mislabeled as moon goddesses" but I love Olivia Bürki's art (she also did the Witching Hour Oracle) so here we are.

So instead of talking about the deck as a whole I thought we'd go through the goddess cards in the deck and see how many are actually moon goddesses.

Here is your warning in advance for whitewashing and sexualization of BIPOC.

I'll put an asterisk next to goddesses from living cultures. Note: I prefer the term "living" to "closed" because "closed culture" has been misused by non-academics, but it amounts to the same thing: do not touch without permission.

If you know more about any of these deities let me know. I'm working with wikipedia and passing familiarity with some of these pantheons.

Aine

Moon goddess? I'm confident in saying no. Aine is, to my knowledge, explicitly associated with the summer solstice. Wiki does mention a tradition in Limerick where people would bring the sick to a lake during the full moon but that's all I can see that points to lunar symbolism.

Anahita*

Moon goddess? I had to do a bit of digging and my conclusion is no, although wikipedia mentions that Anahita has been syncretized with numerous goddesses. She appears to be primarily associated with water and lotus flowers. The Persian moon deity, Mah, is a god (he's not a very prominent deity apparently).

I do like the art though.

Archangel Haniel (also called Anael, Hananel, Hanael, Aniel) *seems to be exclusive to Jewish tradition, not shared by Christians or Muslims

Moon goddess? Well, not a goddess, an angel. It's also important to note that lists of archangels and their associations get shuffled around. Wikipedia associates her with Venus. Back when I was into a lot of New Age stuff, Gabriel was the archangel most often associated with the moon, but it appears that some New Agers are really into the Haniel = moon thing. I'm leaning towards no but am tempted to give this one half a point.

Arianrhod

Moon goddess? Maybe. A lot of folks look at her name ("silver wheel") and assume she's a moon goddess based on that. Other common associations are with the stars and the sky.

Chang-O (or Chang Er)*

Moon goddess? Yes.

Coyolxauhqui*

Moon goddess? Yes, or at least her severed limbs made the moon.

Devana

Moon goddess? Maybe. She seems to be associated with forests and hunting and equated with Artemis and Diana (both eventually came to be associated with the moon and are kind of stuck with it now). But different Slavic cultures had their own moon deities. Also I've heard some deities are just wholesale fabrications.

Dewi Ratih*

Moon goddess? Yes, associated with lunar eclipses. (Also I love her outfit.)

Freya

Moon goddess? No, stop it.

Continued in my next post

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a-d-nox · 2 years

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huitzilopochtli, god of war and the sun (asteroid 52387)

Huitzilopochtli is often referred to as "Xiuhpilli," or Turquoise Prince, and "Totec," or Our Lord, in mythology. He is often thought of as a principal Aztec deity seen in art as hummingbird-like (like this top photo) or eagle-like. His name can be broken down to “the left” (opochtli) “hummingbird” (huitzilin) in the Nahuatl language. Oftentimes, he would be thought to have been accompanied by fallen warriors and women who died in childbirth. Within four years of their death, it is thought that Huitzilopochtli transformed his people into hummingbirds. Huitzilopochtli is thought to have been the son of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl. Though some sources indicate that he was the earth goddess Coatlicue's son. That version states that he was born from a ball of hummingbird feather placed under her breast. Coatlicue's hundreds of children, in particular her one daughter - Coyolxauhqui, believed that their mother had been with an inconsequential warrior or that the birth appeared unnatural and attempted to either kill her or the unborn Huitzilopochtli. In some versions, Coyolxauhqui decapitates her mother and two snake heads grow in its place. This resulted in Huitzilopochtli emerging fully armed and ready to defend both his mother and himself from his siblings. Huizilopochtli in turn cuts off his sister's head; causing Coyolxauhqui to become the moon. This, of course, only makes Coyolxauhqui more angry thus her and her hundreds of siblings (the stars) constantly chasing Huizilopochtli (the sun). IN MY OPINION Huitzilopochtli in a chart represents a) where you have a lot of energy, b) where both women and men are comforted by you in trying times, c) where you are closest to your mother and most willing to defend her, and/or d) where you are chased by and chasing your enemies.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of huitzilopochtli along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of huitzilopochtli!

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Coyolxauhqui, Aztec goddess of the the moon, and sister of Huitzilopochtli.

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mariacallous · 9 months

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Over the years, archaeologists have unearthed many offerings at the Templo Mayor, located at the heart of the ancient Aztec, or Mexica, capital of Tenochtitlán and adjacent to contemporary Mexico City’s cathedral. The most recent, the 186th to date, was announced in August: a stone chest filled with objects from the sea and 15 anthropomorphic sculptures in green stone, dating from the reign of Moctezuma Ilhuicamina (1440–69).

The discovery was made by archaeologists Alejandra Aguirre Molina and Antonio Marín Calvo, working under the direction of Juan Ruiz Hernández of the Proyecto Templo Mayor—an ongoing restoration effort focused on one of the great archaeological landmarks of ancient Mexico. It was founded by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma in 1978 not long after utility workers discovered a statue of the Aztec goddess of the moon, Coyolxauhqui, at the Templo Mayor site. The initiative is currently directed by archaeologist Leonardo López Luján.

The offering was left on a platform on the rear facade of the Huei Teocalli, to use the Nahuatl name for the Templo Mayor, a few centimeters away from an area impacted 123 years ago by the placement of a sewage pipe. The offering box includes 14 anthropomorphic male sculptures and one female figurine. This artifact dates from the time of the first Moctezuma to rule Tenochtitlán, in the middle of the 15th century.

According to the researchers, the sculptures carved from green stone exhibit characteristics of the Mezcala style from the northern highlands of the Mexican state of Guerrero, about 200 miles south of Mexico City. Among these sculptures, one that is 30 centimeters high stands out in contrast to the other figurines that are as small as 3 centimeters tall. All have some unique features, and the style of the figures and their origin in the state of Guerrero has led the archaeologists to speculate that they arrived at the Templo Mayor following the Aztec conquest of the region. Like all Aztec rulers, Moctezuma I Ilhuicamina, whose full name in Nahuatl is Motēuczōmah īlhuihcamīna, was a powerful leader of the civilization which had its capital at Tenochtitlán. He ruled between 1440 and 1469 and was the fifth tlatoani, or ruler of Tenochtitlán. Moctezuma I expanded the territory of his empire through a series of military campaigns and conquests. During his reign, the Triple Alliance (which consisted of Tenochtitlán and the nearby cities of Texcoco and Tlacopan) succeeded in conquering several neighboring peoples and expanding its influence in the Mesoamerican region.

In addition to his military achievements, Moctezuma I is remembered for his focus on the cultural and religious development of Tenochtitlán. He promoted the construction and decoration of many temples and monuments, including the Templo Mayor, the most important ceremonial center of the Mexica civilization. “When the Mexica subdued these peoples, the figurines were already relics, some of them are more than 1,000 years old, and presumably served as cult effigies, which the Mexica appropriated as spoils of war,” explains Luján.

Aguirre and Marín, who also worked with Sofía Benítez Villalobos, a specialist in restoring artifacts, have concluded that, after they were brought to Tenochtitlán, the sculptures underwent a ritual that transformed them and incorporated them into the religious life of Tenochtitlán. They point to traces of facial painting that the Mexica added to the figurines, associated with the god of rain, Tlaloc. In addition to the sculptures, offering 186 included two earrings in the shape of rattlesnakes and a total of 137 beads made of various green stones, accompanied by sand and 1,942 different elements from the ocean including shells, snails, and corals.

Originally from the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, a region subdued by the Triple Alliance in the time of the first Moctezuma, the seashells have been restored, and the responsibility for their biological identification lies with Belem Zúñiga Arellano, a member of the Proyecto Templo Mayor team.

The discovery of this offering builds on archaeologists’ interest in verifying a pattern observed in earlier offerings, specifically 18, 19, and 97. These consisted of stone chests that were buried as part of dedication offerings under monumental serpent heads located on the platform of the Templo Mayor. All these offerings may provide a better understanding of how the Aztecs viewed the Templo Mayor.

“In the classic Nahuatl language, these chests were known as tepetlacalli, from tetl, or stone, and petlacalli, a box made of mats. In their homes, the Mexica would store their most precious belongings—fine feathers, jewelry, and cotton garments—in chests made from petate (a type of palm). If we look at the Templo Mayor, which represents a sacred mountain full of provisions, we can imagine the priests storing in these ‘stone chests’ the quintessential symbols of water and fertility: sculptures of the rain gods, green stone beads, shells, and snails,” López Luján explains.

By 2024, the Proyecto Templo Mayor plans to ask the Archaeology Council of Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, the government body that administers all of the country’s archaeological sites, for permission to temporarily remove a serpent's head located on the northern side of the Templo Mayor. It is likely that even more treasures will soon see the light of day again.

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