Question for July 2014

No one knows. But to the Aztecs, creation and destruction were part of the natural order of things. They didn’t see destruction as bad. Think of it as cleaning your room. When you clean your room, you ‘destroy’ the existing order of things (even if stuff was in a mess) but you create a new order. Now, mums tend to like the new order but kids tend to like the old order...

Illustration by Miguel Covarrubias of the central part of the Aztec Sunstone, showing the four previous world eras or ‘Suns’ - and the fifth, emerging from them...