The Aztecs

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humans. Bot the first humans but he went and collected all the bones in the earth of the previous mad humans and he tripped and fell breaking some of the bones and what not (this is what made people all different shapes and sizes, then he put his blood in them and they came to life. The Aztecs believed in keeping nature in order. In the sky they believed there was a constant battle between light and darkness which one day would be lost. Every fifty-two years they believed the earth would end. The Aztec people would extinguish all religious fires, people all over the empire would destroy all their furniture and precious belongings and go into mourning.
The Aztecs had many sun gods. Tezcatlipoca was the first sun god, he was the god of night and an enemy of Quetzalcotal. Quezalcotal knocked Tezcatlipoca from the sky and in revenge Tezcatlipoca came back as a jaguar and destroyed the world. After this Quezalcotal came back as the next god but his rivalry with the jaguar continued ...

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