[2013] Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel

Author:Laura Esquivel [Esquivel, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult
ISBN: 9781503954748
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Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

TEZCATLIPOCA VS. QUETZALCÓATL

The gods Tezcatlipoca (“Smoking Mirror”) along with his brother Quetzalcóatl (“Feathered Serpent”) were two of the most important deities in the Aztecs’ creation myths. Tezcatlipoca harbored a rivalry with his brother Quetzalcóatl over important differences in philosophy. Quetzalcóatl was opposed to human sacrifice, and Tezcatlipoca believed that it was necessary to sustain the sun and therefore life. One time, Tezcatlipoca disguised himself as an old man and offered his brother pulque, the sacred drink. Quetzalcóatl took the bait and got drunk. In that altered state he broke all the laws he had set for his people, and even fornicated with his own sister. Shamed by his actions he exiled himself from the city he had founded. He walked east, toward the rising sun. When he reached the ocean he embarked on a vessel and sailed until he reached the sun in the horizon. There, where the sky meets the water, he fused with the sun, recovered his light, and became Venus, the Morning Star: he who makes a path for the sun to be reborn from the dark every day. After the conquest, friars decorated all figures of Quetzalcóatl with Christian symbols.

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