Toltec

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One of the Tezcatlipocas (sons of the original dual god) transformed himself into the Sun and created the first humans to show up his brothers. The other gods, angry at his audacity, had Quetzalcoatl destroy the sun and the earth, which he did with a flood. The people became fish. This ended the first age. The second, third, and fourth Suns ended, respectively, with the crumbling of the heavens, a rain of fire, and devastating winds.

Leon-Portilla, Miguel. "Mythology of ancient Mexico", in Kramer, Samuel Noah (ed.). Mythologies of the Ancient World (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1961), 450.

This myth is supposedly told of the Toltec Indians of Colorado. The geographical improbability of that Mexican civilization in Colorado is enough to signal the story's inauthenticity, even before taking into account that its mention of manitous belongs a thousand miles to the east.

The Great Spirit Manitou created Colorado as a paradise for the Indians, but in their idleness they began to find fault after fault, until they decided to leave the earth and go to the Manitou's Happy Hunting Grounds in the west. They gathered what wealth they wanted to take with them and headed to to the Portal of the Sun. As they crowded to get through the doorway, the Manitou commanded them to drop their burden and cease their futile quest. Their pile of possessions became Pike's Peak. At the same time, the Manitou commanded the seas and rivers to flood and destroy the earth. However, two Indians, Tlaz and Toluca, swam for days until they found a corn stalk from which they fashioned a canoe, and many days later they landed on the summit of Pike's Peak. They went on to parent the Toltecs. In time, because of their greed and pride, the Toltecs were banished to the south.

Louise M. Smith, The Indian Story of the Creation and Flood: Being the First of the Myths and Legends of Colorado Done into Tales (Denver: Williamson Haffner Company, 1906), 1-23. Retold from: Ernest Whitney and William S. Alexander, Legends of the Pike's Peak Region: The Sacred Myths of the Manitou (Denver: Chain & Hardy Co., 1892), 17-40.