Editing Tezcatlipoca (section)

==Creation stories==
In one of the Aztec accounts of creation, [[Quetzalcoatl]] and Tezcatlipoca joined forces to create the world. Before their act there was only the sea and the primordial, crocodilian earth monster called [[Cipactli]]. To attract her, Tezcatlipoca used his foot as bait for Cipactli, and she, in turn, ate it. The two gods then captured her, and distorted her to make the land from her body. After that, they created the people, and people had to offer sacrifices to comfort Cipactli for her sufferings. Because of this, Tezcatlipoca is depicted with a missing foot.{{Sfn|Olivier|2003|ps= -Tezcatlipoca stories}}

Following this, Tezcatlipoca turned himself into the sun. As a result of his transformation, this and all subsequent ages of humanity were referred to as the [[Five Suns|five suns]].<ref name=":1" /> Quetzalcoatl was furious, so he knocked Tezcatlipoca out of the sky with a stone club. Angered, Tezcatlipoca turned into a jaguar and destroyed the world. Quetzalcoatl, then, replaced him as the sun and started the second age of the world, and it became populated again.{{Sfn|Olivier|2003|ps= -Tezcatlipoca stories}}

Tezcatlipoca overthrew Quetzalcoatl, forcing him to send a great wind that devastated the world, and the people who survived were turned into monkeys. [[Tlaloc]], the god of rain, then became the sun. But he had his wife stolen away by Tezcatlipoca. Angered in turn, he would not make it rain for several years until, in a fit of rage, he made it rain fire. The few people who survived the assault turned into the birds.{{Sfn|Olivier|2003|ps= -Tezcatlipoca stories}}

[[Chalchiuhtlicue]] the Water Goddess then became the sun. However, she was crushed by Tezcatlipoca's accusation that she only pretended to be kind. She cried for many years and the world was destroyed by the resulting floods. Those who survived the deluge were turned into fish.{{Sfn|Olivier|2003|ps= -Tezcatlipoca stories}}