The date for the launch of Sputnik is given as November 4th, 1957 but it was actually October 4th, 1957.
Aztec Creation of the World:
According to Aztec mythology, at the beginning the creative couple Tonacacihuatl and Tonacateuctli, also known as the god Ometeotl. He was a man and a woman, he had four sons, Tezcatlipoc from the east, north, south and west. After 600 years, the sons began to create the universe, including the creation of cosmic time, called "the sun". These gods eventually created the world and all other deities.
After the creation of the world, the gods gave light to people. However, one of the gods had to sacrifice himself by jumping into the fire. Each subsequent sun was created by the personal sacrifice of at least one of the gods. So a key element of this story is the fact that a sacrifice is necessary to initiate restoration.
At the end of the fourth sun, the gods met at Teotihuacán to decide who must be sacrificed so that a new world could begin. The god Huehuetéotl - the old god of fire - started a sacrificial fire, but none of the most important gods wanted to jump into the flames. The rich and proud god Tecuciztecatl, also known as the lord of snails, hesitated. Meanwhile, however, humble and poor Nanahuatzin jumped into the flames and became the new sun.
After the creation of the world, the gods gave light to people. However, one of the gods had to sacrifice himself by jumping into the fire. Each subsequent sun was created by the personal sacrifice of at least one of the gods. So a key element of this story is the fact that a sacrifice is necessary to initiate restoration.
At the end of the fourth sun, the gods met at Teotihuacán to decide who must be sacrificed so that a new world could begin. The god Huehuetéotl - the old god of fire - started a sacrificial fire, but none of the most important gods wanted to jump into the flames. The rich and proud god Tecuciztecatl, also known as the lord of snails, hesitated. Meanwhile, however, humble and poor Nanahuatzin jumped into the flames and became the new sun.
The Creation of World in the Poetic Edda:
1. Hearing I ask from the holy races,
From Heimdall's sons, both high and low;
Thou wilt, Valfather, that well I relate
Old tales I remember of men long ago.
2. I remember yet the giants of yore, Who gave me bread in the days gone by; Nine worlds I knew, the nine in the tree With mighty roots beneath the mold.
3. Of old was the age when Ymir lived; Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were; Earth had not been, nor heaven above, But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
4. Then Bur's sons lifted the level land, Mithgarth the mighty there they made; The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth, And green was the ground with growing leeks.
5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south Her right hand cast over heaven's rim; No knowledge she had where her home should be, The moon knew not what might was his, The stars knew not where their stations were.
And many more in the Elder Edda.
2. I remember yet the giants of yore, Who gave me bread in the days gone by; Nine worlds I knew, the nine in the tree With mighty roots beneath the mold.
3. Of old was the age when Ymir lived; Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were; Earth had not been, nor heaven above, But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
4. Then Bur's sons lifted the level land, Mithgarth the mighty there they made; The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth, And green was the ground with growing leeks.
5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south Her right hand cast over heaven's rim; No knowledge she had where her home should be, The moon knew not what might was his, The stars knew not where their stations were.
And many more in the Elder Edda.