GODS OF TENOCHTITLAN

This mesmerizing floating city
Pyramids to rival Egypt
Gods of nature
Gods of sacrifice
This tantric synergy of the sacred

Tenochtitlan the Aztec capital
Resting magically on Lake Tlateloco
Nurturing harvests
Savoring conquests
Rooted in faith that tramples ego

The Aztec pantheon utterly vast
Building a cosmology and a sacred path
Thirteen realms of heaven
Nine realms of earth
Forging a pantheistic spiritual craft

Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent
African blood flowing within him
Patron of priests
Subject of feasts
Object of faith potent and fervent

A wholistic vision of cosmic ecology
But demanding sacrifice of human bodies
Architects of pain
Agents of change
A dialectic pregnant with tense duality

Huitzilopochtli god of sun and war
Carving a path to destiny’s door
This psychic flood
Demanding blood
A fertile legacy of cosmological lore

A myriad of gods with myriad names
A sacred ecology that conquest displaced
Rebuilding this legacy
Conjuring Aztec energy
Gods of Tenochtitlan realign our fates

visuals by @PanoramaJasmin on X
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2025