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.
Quetzalcoatl presided over the divine assembly at Teotihuacan where Nanahuatzin's sacrifice created the Fifth Sun, and then sacrificed the gods to set it in motion.
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