Aztec Creation Story

The mother of the Aztec creation story
was called "Coatlique",
the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes.
She was created in the image
of the unknown, decorated with skulls,
snakes, and lacerated hands.
There are no cracks in her body and
she is a perfect monolith
(a totality of intensity and self-containment,
yet her features were sqaure
and decapitated). Coatlique was first
impregnated by an obsidian knife and
gave birth to Coyolxanuhqui, goddess
of the moon, and to a group of male offspring,
who became the stars. Then one day Coatlique
found a ball of feathers,
which she tucked into her bosom.
When she looked for it later, it was gone,
at which time she realized that she was
again pregnant. Her children,
the moon and stars did not believe her story.
Ashamed of their mother,
they resolved to kill her.
A goddess could only give birth once, to the
original litter of divinity and no more.
During the time that they were
plotting her demise, Coatlicue gave birth to
the fiery god of war, Huitzilopochtli.
With the help of a fire serpent, he destroyed
his brothers and sister,
murdering them in a rage. He beheaded Coyolxauhqui
and threw her
body into a deep gorge in a mountain,
where it lies dismembered forever.
The natural cosmos of the Indians was born
of catastrophe.
The heavens literally crumbled to pieces.
The earth mother fell and
was fertilized, while her children were torn
apart by fratricide and them
scattered and disjointed throughout the universe.