[ She laughs, since sometimes she means “you know” as an actual question, sometimes it’s more a turn of phrase, but either way… Good to share it now, she supposes! ]
Most of mi familia are warriors! Definitely all of Tezcatlipocas anyways… It’s hard work creating the world, so we had to fight a lot for it, yes!
[ Quetzalcoatl nods, and she at least has the sense to not get too much further into it without Liem asking, since she knows the cosmology of her pantheon gets a little confusing… She can use words like “family” and other relationships like “brother” or “mother”, but they were analogies over anything else. For the gods of the Azteca, they had a structure that was totally different from humanity’s, ultimately. ]
Like my older brother and I! To make the earth for the people of the Fifth Sun to live on, we had to slay Cipactli, the giant sea monster that lived in the sea left behind from the Fourth Sun. He had to use his leg as bait to draw them out, and then I was able to strike the first blow. We had to fight for a long time, but obviously, we won! So, then we made the land out of its body, more or less!
[ It’s the very short version of the story, but it’s also probably a little fun to hear a Creation story told in such a blunt, straightforward way. They’re so prone to metaphor and flowery prose, but then there’s Quetzalcoatl to just say “Tezcatlipoca and I killed a huge crocodile, the end.” At least her stories are easy to understand. ]
So, we kind of have to be skilled! We’re, um, some of the major ones, after all! There’s only father-mother Ometeotl “above” us, and we did all the work!
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[ She laughs, since sometimes she means “you know” as an actual question, sometimes it’s more a turn of phrase, but either way… Good to share it now, she supposes! ]
Most of mi familia are warriors! Definitely all of Tezcatlipocas anyways… It’s hard work creating the world, so we had to fight a lot for it, yes!
[ Quetzalcoatl nods, and she at least has the sense to not get too much further into it without Liem asking, since she knows the cosmology of her pantheon gets a little confusing… She can use words like “family” and other relationships like “brother” or “mother”, but they were analogies over anything else. For the gods of the Azteca, they had a structure that was totally different from humanity’s, ultimately. ]
Like my older brother and I! To make the earth for the people of the Fifth Sun to live on, we had to slay Cipactli, the giant sea monster that lived in the sea left behind from the Fourth Sun. He had to use his leg as bait to draw them out, and then I was able to strike the first blow. We had to fight for a long time, but obviously, we won! So, then we made the land out of its body, more or less!
[ It’s the very short version of the story, but it’s also probably a little fun to hear a Creation story told in such a blunt, straightforward way. They’re so prone to metaphor and flowery prose, but then there’s Quetzalcoatl to just say “Tezcatlipoca and I killed a huge crocodile, the end.” At least her stories are easy to understand. ]
So, we kind of have to be skilled! We’re, um, some of the major ones, after all! There’s only father-mother Ometeotl “above” us, and we did all the work!