The central theme of the myth holds that there were four other cycles of creation and destruction that preceded the Fifth World.
The creation story is taken largely from the mythological, cosmological, and eschatological beliefs and traditions of earlier Mesoamerican cultures.
[1] According to Aztec mythology the present world is a product of four cycles of birth, death, and reincarnation.
The myth is sometimes referred to as the “Legend of Five Suns.”[2] Jaguars, a hurricane, fire rain, and a flood destroyed the first four suns.
The gods would only keep the sun alive as long as the Aztecs continued providing them with blood.
Franciscan Friar Bernardino de Sahagún wrote in his ethnography of Mesoamerica that the victim was someone who "gave his service.”[5] The Navajo, who were neighbors of the Hopi in the southwest, borrow elements of the Pueblo people’s emergence myths in their creation stories.
This world is one where the earth is an area of land floating in an ocean covered by a domed heaven.
The domed heaven fits the land and ocean like a lid with its edges on the horizon.
First Man sent the badger up the reed, but water began to drip before he could reach top so he returned.
The black bird was convinced that the locust possessed great medicine, and he swam away taking the water with him.
So with the explicit help of the gods the people reached the Fifth World similar to the Aztec creation story.
Now after all the people had arrived from the lower worlds First Man and First Woman placed the mountain lion on one side and the wolf on the other.
In the most common version of the story the Spider Grandmother (Kookyangso'wuuti) caused a reed to grow into the sky, and it emerged in the Fourth World at the sipapu, a small tunnel or inter-dimensional passage.