Huitzilopochtli

Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec god of war, sun, human sacrifice, and the patron of the capitol city of Tenochtitlan, and one of the four principal Aztec deities, alongside Quetzalcoatl, Tezcalipoca and Xipe Totec.
He was considered the national god of the Aztecs, who guided them out of the mythical ancestral home of Aztlán into the wider world. He would order his people to built the city of Tenochtitlan, and his first temple was constructed in an area where god had shown a sign: an eagle devouring a serpent, while sitting on a cactus. This image is still shown on the map of Mexico today.
Huitzilopochtli was seen as the literal sun, who was being chased by Coyolxauhqui (the Moon) and her 400 brothers called the Centzonhuitznahua (the stars). If they would catch up to Huitzilopochtli, they would kill him and then proceed to destroy the world and all it's inhabitants. Due to this Aztecs offered massive amounts of human sacrifices to him.
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