Meaning of Fifth World | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A world in a number of American mythologies:
2. Synonym of Fifth Sun.
3. The world which will succeed the destruction of the present world, which is the Túwaquachi (also known as the Fourth World).
4. The present world, which the Navajo travelled through four worlds to reach.
   Navajo
5. Collectively, micronations which are advanced or developed; above the Sixth World and below.
   obsolete
6. Collectively, all micronations.
   broadly, dated, obsolete, rare

Examples

“The Aztec did not realize that all people are the Children of the Creator. They failed to conquer the Fifth World. Instead, Western man conquered the Aztec, and tried to destroy what he thought was Indian Religion.”

“In the Aztec tradition, the Fifth World is the last one, and after a tremendous quake destroys it, the earth is not re-created. According to the Aztecs, human sacrifice is required to prolong the age of the Fifth World or the ritual letting of blood keeps the sun in motion—it is when the sun stops that the earth begins to quake and the apocalypse occurs.”

“The Hopi people believe that the Fourth World will eventually need to be purified and renewed. They believe that if they hold onto their way of life, they will be able to use their culture to benefit life in a Fifth World.”

“The Fourth World was not satisfactory so First Man led the Beings again upward to the Fifth and present world where again were found pre-existent Beings. From these, by magic, the Fifth World was won.”

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