storms. The following three heavens are reserved for the gods to live, and are named Teteocan. The following two heavens was Omeyocan, duality house, where Ometeótl resides.
The Underworld.
Underneath the human space or Tlatipac, is the underworld or Mictlán. Place where Mictlantecuhtli and Mictlantecihuatl rule, the Lord and Lady of death. Human beings that died and did not go to Tlatócan, because their death was not water related. Those that did not go to Chichihuacuahco, paradise reserved only for children. Those that did not go to Ilhuicatltonantiuh, the place reserved for the warriors and the warriors who died fighting their “Flower War”.[1] People that died in a common manner and that their life had been inconsequential, they would have a painful journey to Mictlán, which lasted four years. The places that were visited while going to Mictlán were: earth, the passing water (Apanohuaya), the place where are located the hills (Tépetlmonamicita), the Obsidian Hill (Cehuecáyan), the place of Obsidian wind where flags fly, the place where people are “arrowed”, the place where hearts are eaten (Teocoyleualoyan), place of Obsidian of the dead, and finally Mictlán or place without a smoke hole. At the end of these four suffering years, people went before Mictlantecuhtli, who would tell them, —Your sorrow has ended, therefore go, to sleep your deadly sleep and they turned to nothing—, they disappeared.
In the philosophical Anahuac world, there were also intangible space intermingled with the mythical, religion, history and the cultural reality of the ancient grandparents. In their overall context we can appreciate the depth of the complex thought of our ancestors; their thought penetrated very high conception levels of the world and life. Among others we can mention: Ximoyan, the place of the emaciated. Topan in
- ↑ A flower war or flowery war (Nahuatl: xōchiyāōyōtl) is the name given to the battles fought between the Aztec Triple Alliance and some of their enemies: most notably the city-states of Tlaxcala, Huexotzinco, Atlixco and Cholula. It is considered the ritual and symbolic fight to overcome the inertia of matter, i.e., the vices and human weaknesses, to transcend the material existence of life and penetrate to the unfathomable mysteries of the spirit.
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