Aztec Poetsof the fifth sun

Some rulers and other significcant speaker were viewed to have traits connortations similar to gods. However, while gods could take specific actions of their own will in the past, these people could make real life decisions that affected the people around them. Tenochtitlan appeared to embody war and destruction, while Texcoco appeared to embody art and creation. One seemed the city of the Five Ages, the other the city of Tamoanchan. Tlacaellel was known as a great commander and strategist in war, and was associated with both the burning of the Aztec history books and the reification of the deity Huitzilipochtli. Nezahualcoyotl was known as a great poet, engineer, maker, and enforcer of a just law, and was credited with the build- ing of irrigation ditches, dikes, and causeways as well as with the reification of the deity Tlaloque Nahuaque, sometimes called the Lord of the Near and the Nigh, or the Dual Creator.