11 Ancient Apocalyptic Myths

11. Aztec Worlds

The Aztecs believed that four worlds had already existed and been destroyed by the gods Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl, so they were thus living in the fifth world.

In the first world, Tezcatlipoca had turned himself into the sun, but when Quetzalcoatl knocked him out of the sky with a club he got mad and made jaguars eat all the humans. The two gods created a new world, but when the people stopped being religious Tezcatlipoca turned them into monkeys. Quetzalcoatl had enjoyed how sinful they had become, so he got angry about their fate and killed them all with a hurricane.

In the next two worlds, the gods Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue were tricked by Tezcatlipoca into destroying them using fire and floods. The fifth one, that we are still living in, was believed would be destroyed by earthquakes.