{"id":14406,"date":"2023-09-19T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/startups\/explore-the-ancient-aztec-capital-in-this-lifelike-3d-rendering\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:32:42","slug":"explore-the-ancient-aztec-capital-in-this-lifelike-3d-rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=14406","title":{"rendered":"Explore the Ancient Aztec Capital in This Lifelike 3D Rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Aztecs did not count time on an infinite scale, as we do, but in cyclical 52-year periods, and at the completion of each cycle, life and the world would begin anew. To initiate the start of a new cycle the New Fire ceremony was held, the most important Aztec ritual. Every 52 years the inhabitants of Tenochtitl\u00e1n discarded the images of their gods and all their domestic utensils and extinguished any fires in their homes and temples. As the city sat in complete darkness, priests would leave the Templo Mayor and travel to Huixachtlan (Cerro de la Estrella, or Hill of the Star), and at the summit they would perform a ceremony to light a new fire. The ritual was surrounded with uncertainty and fear because it was believed that if the new fire was not successfully lit, the world would end and the stars would turn into monsters that would devour humanity. During the five days prior to the ceremony, the people let their fires go out and destroyed their household goods, and then they waited, fasting and lamenting, pondering the possibility of the collapse of the world. That moment was beautifully re-created in 3D by Kole.<\/p>\n

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