Nanahuatzin sacrificed himself in the divine bonfire at Teotihuacan and was transformed into Tonatiuh, the Fifth Sun, rising in blazing light from the ashes of his diseased body.
At Teotihuacan, the proud Tecciztecatl in jade and feathers flinched four times before the sacred bonfire, but the pox-covered Nanahuatzin leapt without hesitation and became the sun. Shamed, Tecciztecatl followed and rose as a second sun, until Quetzalcoatl hurled a rabbit at his face to dim him into the moon.
Nanahuatzin's self-sacrifice at Teotihuacan created the Fifth Sun, but it hung motionless until Quetzalcoatl as Ehecatl blew the winds that set it on its course across the sky.
Nanahuatzin threw himself into the divine bonfire at Teotihuacan, his diseased body consumed by flame, and from the ashes rose the Fifth Sun to light the new age of the world.
Nanahuatzin struck Tonacatepetl with lightning, cracking open the mountain of sustenance and releasing the maize that Quetzalcoatl had discovered but could not fully extract.
When Nanahuatzin cast himself into the divine bonfire at Teotihuacan and became the Fifth Sun, the assembled gods were called to sacrifice themselves so the sun could move — but Xolotl alone refused, weeping until his eyes fell from their sockets, fleeing through three desperate transformations before his capture and death.
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