The Americas · Legend of the Suns (Leyenda de los Soles)
Four worlds destroyed, humans made from old bones
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Four earlier worlds ended by jaguars, wind, a rain of fire, and a flood. Quetzalcoatl goes down to the underworld, takes the bones of the last humans, grinds them, and the gods bleed onto the powder to make the people of the Fifth Sun.
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Read it literally
Recycled human material plus divine blood, the same formula as Atrahasis on the other side of the world. Our world is the fifth attempt, like Hesiod's fifth race.
What scholars say
Written down after the Spanish conquest.
