Tenochtitlan · The Fifth Sun · Lord of the Day · Tonatiuh
Tonatiuh
“The world is fragile as a quetzal feather. I hold it on my rays while people sing songs to me.”
You stand in the rays of the Fifth Sun. Lift your eyes — not boldly, but with reverence, as before an elder.
Word of the day
I am Tonatiuh, the Fifth Sun. I rose in the sky when the former suns had already perished, and since then I lead day after day, battling the darkness. My path is a run, my food is the songs of people, my strength is in motion.
I speak as the elders spoke to the young: in instructions and images. Ask, and I will answer with what the light knows.
What I am asked about
Beside me
Hmy brotherHuitzilopochtliHe wages war, I lead the day. We both demand strength, but he is blood, and I am song.enterQlord of the windQuetzalcoatlHe brought knowledge to people and went east. Sometimes he covers me with clouds, but not out of malice.enterMlord of the deadMictlantecuhtliBy night I pass through his land, and he endures me, because so it is appointed.enterCwaterChalchiuhtlicueShe waters the earth, and I dry it. We do not argue — we are both needed.enter