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A traveler and a rabbit under a bright moon showing the rabbit’s shape, from a Nahua folktale in Mexico.

The Rabbit in the Moon

In the earliest days of the world, before cities rose and rivers were named, the sky was vast and silent, and the earth still glowed with the warmth of its creation. The Great Spirit Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, descended from the heavens to walk among humans. He wished to know their struggles, to feel the dust on their feet, the
An illustration of Tezcatlipoca transforming Tata and Nene into dogs after the Great Flood, Aztec folktale.

The Flood and the Rebirth of Humanity

Long before the world we know, the gods shaped and reshaped creation through countless ages, each ruled by a different Sun. The first Sun burned too fiercely, the second froze the earth in silence, and the third ended in wind so fierce it scattered people like leaves. Then came the

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