【神話の真実】五つの太陽──アステカが「四度滅んだ世界」を数えた写本…

There are questions in this world that no one has yet answered. Welcome to today's mystery. The Aztec manuscript, "The Legend of the Sun," quietly records four worlds that have perished, and the end brought about by the fifth sun. A low, long wind sweeps across the dry central Mexican plateau. The Nahuatl-speaking people—the Nahua people whom we call Aztecs—recorded that their world would one day be destroyed by a great earthquake. Why did people record the end, even knowing that it would inevitably come? The setting is 16th-century Mexico. The manuscript "The Legend of the Sun," copied in 1558, is contained within a document known as the Chimalpopoca Manuscript. This record recounts four suns—four worlds. The first sun was devoured by wild beasts, the next was blown away by raging winds, the third was burned by a rain of fire, and the fourth was swallowed by a great flood. The four endings were not disparate ghost stories, but rather arranged in a definite order linked to the Nahua calendar. The manuscript then refers to the fifth sun we live in today as the "earthquake sun," Nawi-Olin, and, in the exact same style as the previous four, declares that it too will perish. Were the four destructions not merely records of the distant past, but a declaration of the inevitable end of this world as well? We will examine, step by step, the central elements of this cosmology—the sacrifices to keep the sun moving, the cyclical nature of time. The philosopher Léon Portilla interpreted this system as a consistent understanding of the universe in his 1956 work, *Nawai Philosophy*. However, all existing manuscripts were written after the conquest, in the environment of missionaries. Could the cyclical structure of apocalypse and rebirth have been later given form through contact with the Book of Revelation in the Bible? Whether it represents the core of pre-conquest thought or a reconstructed image after conquest, definitive evidence to define the boundary from the texts has yet to be found. In modern Mexico, people who speak Nahuat still live, and the memory of their language has not faded. Amidst climate crisis and the uncertain future, our own lives, as we tell stories of the end of the world, suddenly overlap with their perspective. This is a story to be listened to quietly, along with the feeling of twilight falling on the plateau. #AncientCivilization #MysteryExplanation #Aztec ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ About this video • The video was created using an AI image generation model and is not a photograph of actual landscapes, people, or artifacts. • The audio and script were also generated by AI, with human planning, adjustment, and quality control. *The content of this video is based on generally known information and theories, but its accuracy is not guaranteed. Recent research may change our perspective. If you are interested, please do your own research. You may make new discoveries. Please refrain from unauthorized reproduction or re-uploading. If you enjoyed the videos on this channel, please subscribe and give us a thumbs up.