Aztec Religion Codex
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- The Aztecs had a pantheon where they stored and kept stone-made statues which they had considered powerful beings worthy of worship entitled “gods”. The four prominent ones in their religion were Huitzilopochtli, Tonatiuh, Tlaloc, and Quetzalcoatl. Their religion was a polytheistic one in which they believed in multiple “ultimate entities” that individually represented important parts of the world for Aztec people, and was also syncretistic with Mesoamerican cultures as it incorporated some elements of their culture. Their polytheistic religion also shared the common cosmological beliefs of earlier peoples, especially with the Mayas.
- They also had a strong belief in fate. So, whenever omens or portents were indicating a terrible occurrence to happen in the near future, they acted with immediate caution and took certain circumstances. A common practice during these times was the sacrifice of a person, particularly the offering of their heart, to the sun deity of the Fifth Sun, “Tonatiuh”. In fact, it was every Aztec’s responsibility to fight and perish for the “deities” and maintenance of world order.
- Sacrifice!
- One of the Aztec inventions is involved in the polytheistic religion the Aztecs follow. This particular Aztec creation was the calendar where the intricate rituals and ceremonies that had occupied the priests were based. The Aztec calendar consists of 365 days that make up the solar year and 260 days that make up the sacred year (based on astronomical observations). Those two crucial time periods in their religion ran parallel, creating a bigger cycle which consisted of 52 years called “tonalpohualli” or “counting of the days”.
- Their four-era mythology was the basis of the ceremonial way of living that was maintained by a ceremonial priest. They include: the Water Sun, Sun of the Earth, the Wind Sun, and the present Sun of Fire. All these myths had formed and structured two beliefs among Aztec society. Those two beliefs were the universe being unstable and that perishment and destruction had continuously threatened the universe, and another belief was an emphasis on the necessity of the sacrifice of “deities”. This was the foundation of the general insightoftheir homeland and the world around them.
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