The Aztecs believed that long ago their ancestors the first men emerged from Seven Caverns as Chicomoztic a tradition shared by the. Native Americans the Quiches and Incas suggesting refuge underground from cataclysm or aerial wars.
Traditions recall that the Aztecs, the People of the Crane about 1160 AD were directed by their Sun God Huitzilopochtli to leave their home at Aztlan far North of Colorado River and migrate siuthward to the promised land indicated by an island in a lake where they would see an eagle devouring a serpent.
Six of the tribes bearing an image of their god came to the Land of Anahuac and for decades followed the Spirit of Huitzilopochtli manifesting as a white eagle which ked them in confusion like Jehovah keading the children of Israel for forty years in the wilderness-a significant parallel especially if both the Aztec and Hebrew gods were spaceman.
The while eagle leading the Aztecs may have been a Spaceship.
Finally about 1325 AD the descendants of the original wanderers arrived on the shore of Lake Tezcoco where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus it's talons clutching a snake. The tribes halted and the priests scanned the heaven's awaiting the God's command.
Huitzilopochtli ordered the Aztecs to built here their city Tenochtitlan called Mexico by the Europeans after the war God, Mexitili, from which the Aztecs would expand as a prosperous empire to conquer the earth.
These symbols of the sun god, eagle and serpent, etiquette the legend of the postdiluvian Babylonian King Etana, associated with an eagle and serpent who flew to the skies.
The eagle and the serpent symbolize wisdom of the sky god and feature prominently in worldwide religions (example Guarda of Asia, Thunderbird in the Pacific Northwest, The Rick of the Middle East ).
Today Mexico's National Emblem is an Eagle on a CactusvGrasping a Serpent.
Quezocoatl whose beneficence inspired the people of Mexico for hundreds and probably for thousands of years and whose emblem the feathered serpent dominated the temples of Central America is described by the Italian Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero Echegaray as a high priest of Tula, center of the Toltec culture.
He is described as white in complexion, tall and corpulent, with.large eyes, long black hair, thick beard, a man of austere and exemplary life, clothes in long garments, gentle and prudent.
He was expert in the art of melting metals and polishing precious stones which he taught Toltecans.
The reign of Quezocoatl was the golden age of Mexico.
The origin of the Fair God mystified the Aztecs and outraged the Spaniards who were startled at his close affinity with Christ.
Today myth merges with history. His identity intrigues us more than ever.
The eagle said to him, to Etana: “Look my friend, how the land is now,
Examine the sea, look for its boundaries. The land is hills…
The sea has become a stream”. When he had borne him aloft a second league,
The eagle said to him, said to Etana,“Look my friend, how the land is now!
The land is a hill.”When he had borne him aloft a third league,
The eagle said to him, said to Etana, “Look my friend, how the land is now!
The sea has become a gardener’s ditch”…
Etana and the eagle continue their climb, soaring further above the earth, entering the heavenly realms of the gods Anu, Enlil, and Ea. They pass through the gates of the gods—the moon god Sin, Shamash the sun god, and Adad the god of storms. They finally come to a heavenly palace where Etana finds the beautiful young goddess Ishtar seated on a throne under which lions crouch. Etana then asks the eagle to take him home. On the way back he falls off the eagle however, plummeting towards the earth, but is rescued by him in mid-flight. Unfortunately, due to a missing portion at the end of the tablet, the tale remains unfinished, leaving us in suspense…
Etana apparently did find the “plant of birth” though–perhaps given to him by Ishtar, the goddess of fertility–since according to the Sumerian king list he indeed had a male heir.
The Epic of Etana, featuring magical flight through the heavens on the back of an eagle shares many similarities with shamanistic narratives found world-wide. The eagle is a well known spirit-helper of shamans. In Siberian myths the first shaman was born from the mating of a woman and eagle, and eagles figure prominently in shamanic initiations and costumes. The Native Americans see the eagle as a powerful medicine animal, the messenger between humans and the Creator. In a legend from the Pacific Northwest, the Thunderbird carries a man to his home in the sky and befriends him, eventually returning him to the earth where he becomes a great shaman.
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