Every grade had to make an altar to honor a certain Aztec God. Our 9th grade altar was the god of death...the story behind our god is that it would cut the skins off their people and wear them...little gruesome...all the little kid grades got gods of the ocean and fire...we got death...There had to be food on the altar for the god so it can eat. In order to explain why the food doesn’t disappear (like Santa's Xmas cookies) they say the gods just suck the flavor out of it.... There has to be a sand path in front of the altar outlined with flowers acting as a path for the gods to follow so they can find their way. There was one altar for all the dead animals on our farm...this was the only non-god altar.
On the night of the big altar demonstration, my 9th graders put on a play on about the Gods and the creation of the 5th sun. The play starts off with two main gods who are about to give birth to the 4 new gods of the Earth. It was so funny because one of the main gods was my smallest girl and how they acted out giving birth was she was standing and the 4 boys just crawled through her legs to symbolize birth. IT was cute because all are pretty small except one. And when he climbed through she stepped farther apart but he still pushed her legs even farther apart when he crawled through because he couldn’t fit...it was pretty cute. Then the 4 new gods fight and in the end the 4 new gods decide to sacrifice themselves in order for the birth of the 5th sun which represents life in peace with nature....at least i think this is what the play was about...my Spanish is only so good
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