The Five Suns, A Sacred History of México

1996 · 59 min · Animation, History

"The Five Suns" tells how Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca create heaven and earth, journey to the underworld to create humans and find sustenance for them, and finally create the sun and the moon. Like all creation stories, this one provides mythic answers to life's most perplexing questions and offers an ethical vision of how we should live.

Directed by Patricia Amlin · Written by Lourdes Portillo