Origin, divinity, creation, anger, surrender and birth of the definitive and eternal sun. The Legend of the 3 Suns, inspired by Aztec culture, was created by artistic director Pera Tantiñá to tell the legend through aerial dance, clay men, fire and color.
According to Aztec culture, in the beginning there was nothing, so Ometéotl, the god of duality, the eternal god, created the four brothers, the primitive gods. Separated by regions, Xipe Totec (red) to the east, Tezcatlipoca (black) to the north, Quetzalcoatl (white) to the west and Huitzilopochtli (blue) to the south, were the creators of the world: lakes, mountains, seas and human beings.
In the beginning, all was darkness because there was no sun and human beings were dark. So then, the gods decided to transform themselves into the sun to illuminate the Earth. The first was Quetzalcoatl. However, Tezcatlipoca, carried away by his envy, ascended to the heavens and with one blow knocked down his brother. Quetzalcoatl in his fall caused a gigantic gale that destroyed everything. To make amends for his mistake, the gods placed Tlaloc as the sun, god of harvests that allowed abundance and that men were happy. However, men dedicated themselves to unhealthy pleasures destroying the world disrespectfully. Chalchiuhtlicue, with so much rottenness, asked the god of fire, Huehuetéotl, for help to destroy humanity and a rain of fire was unleashed. The terrified human beings begged the gods to turn them into birds in order to flee. The primitive gods, creators of the evolution of mankind, gave them white wings to help them escape.
Darkness reigned in the world, so the four brothers were reunited to create a new eternal and definitive sun. They would need two of them, one to be the sun and the other to be the moon, to find balance. The third sun was born, and together with its companion the moon, they restored the balance allowing humanity to be reborn in the final world.
