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Man dragging a dead giant, Codex Ríos. In Aztec mythology, the Quinametzin populated the world during the previous era of the Sun of Rain (Nahui-Quiahuitl).They were punished by the gods because they did not venerate them, and their peak-civilization came to an end as a result of great calamities and as a punishment from the heavens for grave sins they had committed.
This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for those, see list of species in fantasy fiction). Abrahamic religions & Religions of the ancient Near East
In 2006, a massive monolith of Tlaltecuhtli was discovered in an excavation at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City). [18] The sculpture measures approximately 13.1 x 11.8 feet (4 x 3.6 meters) and weighs nearly 12 tons, making it one of the largest Aztec monoliths ever discovered—larger even than the Calendar Stone .
Xelhua is one of the seven giants in Aztec mythology [1] who escaped the flood by ascending the mountain of Tlaloc in the terrestrial paradise and afterwards built the Great Pyramid of Cholula. One of the six giants sons of Mixcoatl , [ 2 ] the personification of the Milky Way:
Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. [1] The Aztecs were Nahuatl -speaking groups living in central Mexico and much of their mythology is similar to that of other Mesoamerican cultures.
Mexican mythology may refer to: Aztec mythology; Maya mythology; Olmec religion; See also. Mesoamerican religion This page was last edited on 5 ...
Mytos y leyendas de los Aztecas, Incas, Mayas y Muiscas (Myths and Legends from the Aztecs, Incas, Mayas and Muisca). Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. ISBN 968-16-0581-0. Perez Reguera García, Alejandra (2002). Pérez Reguera M. de E. Alfonso. México, nación de mítos, valores y símbolos (Mexico: Nation of Myths, Values and Symbols ...
Scholar Juan José Batalla Rosado has identified an iconographic element unique to depictions of Tezcatlipoca in codices from central Mexico, which both Rosado and Sahagún call the "ezpitzal." The term is likely derived from the Nahuatl words for "blood" ( eztli ) and "to become enflamed with anger" or "to rise with anger" ( pitza ).