Huitzilopochtli

General Cortés has sworn not to rest until Mexico becomes a Christian nation.

The general has sworn to tear down the idol of Huitzilopochtli and erect the true cross of Jesus Christ in its place.

Well, um, as an Aztec princess, how do you feel about the overthrow of the state religion?

When my father became emperor, 100,000 slaves were put to death on the sacrificial block to celebrate the coronation.

It's a mission that she's devoted herself to for thousands upon thousands of years, as if by working hard enough she could prevent any of her descendants from feeling anything close to the pain that she herself once felt.

[mysterious music] This episode of Lore Legends was produced by me, Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Jamie Vargas.

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The one over here in the upper left is Quetzalcoatl, supreme god of the Aztecs.

The one in the upper right is Huitzilopochtli.

He's one of my favorites, a god of war.

The one at the base of the triangle is Tlaloc, god of rain.

John D., he received.

these black obsidian scrying mirrors that the Aztecs used in their temple to Huitzilopochtli.

And I may refer to that god as Huitzilobos because that's what the Spanish called him.

And he used those essentially in the Elizabethan court.

So literally all of it was based around how do you make people taste good? And we'll get into the

reasons why, how that happened.

And of course, in particular, Huitzilopochtli is the reason why.

But we'll get to that as we go through the rise of the Aztec

The bloody scenes in the Mexican Teocalli were merciful compared with those in the torture rooms of the Inquisition.

Yet the religion of Jesus was far above that of Huitzilopochtli.

What I think is the essence, the principle of vitality in religion and in all religions, is their supposed control over the destiny of the individual, his weal or woe, his good or bad hap, here or hereafter, as it may be.

Rooted infinitely deep in this sense of personality, religion was recognized at the beginning.

So also did the four hundred Chichimecs, and these set about to burn one of the five goddesses by name Coatlicue, the serpent-skirted, because it was discovered that she was with child, though yet unmarried.

But in fact, she was a spotless virgin and had known no man.

She had placed some white plumes in her bosom, and through these the god Huitzilopochtli entered her body to be born again.

When therefore the four hundred had gathered together to burn her, the god came forth fully armed and slew them every one.

Who says art history isn't exciting? The image would have been familiar to the Aztecs when it was carved in the late 15th century.

It depicts the story of the moon goddess Koyolxauki, who was furious when she found out her mother was pregnant with Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun.

So the moon goddess tried to murder her mother with the help of her 400 brothers.

But the baby sun god was born ready to rumble, with an armored adult body.

According to description, the gladiator stones were pierced by a hole in the center, so that one or more captives could be bound fast by a rope.

on the top of the stone of the sock is a representation of tonatiuh or the sun's disk much less complex than that which we have seen on the calendar stone but with many similar parts on the sides of the stone are fifteen groups of figures each group representing a conqueror and his captive the victorious soldier appears each time in the guise of the war-god wichilopochli or his wizard brother The left foot of the figure ends in two scroll-like objects that might represent the hummingbird feathers that form the left foot of Huitzilopochtli.

But Tezcatlipoca also had a deformed foot.

Moreover, on the side of the headdress is a disc with a flame-shaped object coming out of it.

Constantinople.When the city fell in fourteen fifty-three before the Turkish arms, the Sultan adopted the crescent as a symbol of his victorious power, and as a humiliation to his Christian enemies; and thus again the religious significance of the crescent changed, and as an emblem of a Mohammedan power soon came to be regarded by the forgetful Christians with horror and a deadly hatred.

The ancient Chaldees believed in a celestial virgin mother to whom the erring sinner might appeal; and Shinmu, the mother-goddess, occupies a conspicuous place in Chinese worship.

The Babylonians and Assyrians worshipped a goddess called Mylitta, whose son Tammuz is said to have arisen from the dead.

In India they have worshipped for ages Devaki, the mother of Krishna, and Maya, the mother of Buddha, both of whom are represented with the infant saviours in their arms.

We're gonna call it-

[laughs] We're gonna call it war God H.

War God H.