Curiosmos
  • Home
  • Unsolved Mysteries
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Cosmic Phenomena
  • Alien Theories
  • Curious Lists
No Result
View All Result
Like us on Facebook
Curiosmos
  • Home
  • Unsolved Mysteries
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Cosmic Phenomena
  • Alien Theories
  • Curious Lists
No Result
View All Result
Curiosmos
No Result
View All Result

10 Facts About The Quinametzin — The Giants of Aztec Mythology

Vladislav TchakarovbyVladislav Tchakarov
March 8, 2021 - Updated on January 21, 2024
in Curious Lists
An illustration from an old manuscript from the colonial era called Codex Rios depicting Aztec warriors that captured a Quinametzin giant. Credit: Infobae

An illustration from an old manuscript from the colonial era called Codex Rios depicting Aztec warriors that captured a Quinametzin giant. Credit: Infobae

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Descriptions of giants are common in religious books and historical texts around the world, including in Central America. Giants such as Goliath, Og, and Nephilim are mentioned in the Western world, and especially in the Bible, but people on the American continent have also described huge people with unheard-of power since ancient times.

It seems that evidence and legends about the existence of giants can be found all over the world. Is it really possible that in the past our ancestors coexisted with an extinct race of giants, and if so, why does this part of human history remain in the shadows? A good example of a race of giants is Quinametzin, described by both the Aztecs and their conquerors – the Spaniards.


1. An old Spanish manuscript from the colonial era called Codex Rios describes a giant named Quinametzin. He was captured by Aztec warriors.

2. Quinametzin was one of the “old ones”, a giant from a race that inhabited the world in an earlier era.

Related Posts

The Shigir Idol is the world's oldest wooden statue. Credit: Terberger et al., Quat. Int., 2021

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Shigir Idol

March 28, 2021 - Updated on January 21, 2024
The Conquest of Tenochtitlán after which Hernan Cortes brought the end of the Aztec Empire.

11 Things You Should Know about Hernan Cortes: The Conqueror of the Aztecs

August 21, 2020 - Updated on January 21, 2024

3. The Quinametzin giants did not venerate the gods. As punishment for their many sins, the gods caused severe disasters and destroyed their civilization.

4. Different versions of the story exist but the most widely accepted reason for the end of their civilization was a mighty flood similar to the Great Flood from the Book of Genesis.

5. According to legends, the Quinametzin giants founded many of the ancient cities later inhabited by the Aztec civilization, including Tenochtitlan, said to be built by the giant Tenoch.

6. According to these same legends, giants built many of the monumental Aztec pyramids including the Great Pyramid of Cholula, now believed to be the largest pyramid in the world.

7. The Pyramid of Cholula was built by the giant Xelhua, who according to mythology, escaped the flood and created his own race of men. Once the gods realized this, they tried to destroy the pyramid with fire from the sky but apart from killing many men, the pyramid withstood destruction.

8. Aztec mythology mentions 10 Quinametzin giants that were supposedly long extinct by the time of the Spanish invasion. On the contrary, Spanish conquistadors claimed they saw real giants when they invaded the Aztecs.

9. According to translated information from the Spanish invasion of the American continent, one of the greatest heroes of the Aztecs – Tzilacatzin – was also a giant. Tzilacatcin became famous during the siege of Tenochtitlan. Aztec warriors feared the Spanish soldiers, but the giant was very strong and managed to stone several Spaniards.

10. If Tzilacatzin truly was a giant, it would contradict the words written in Codex Rios that describe the Quinametzin giants and the Aztecs as enemies.


Unfortunately, much of what we know about the Aztecs, their history, and their mythology has been written by Europeans after the conquests. The Aztecs did not have an alphabet or a writing system, they used pictographs to describe events and objects. Their mythology was transmitted verbally which means that European scribers and historians had to study it based on the words of natives.

We will never know how much of what was written is true and how much was influenced by the will of the foreign invaders. In each case, legends about giants exist in almost every ancient culture and archaeology continues to find more and more evidence about their existence.


Join the discussion and participate in awesome giveaways in our mobile Telegram group. Join Curiosmos on Telegram Today. t.me/Curiosmos


Sources:

• Ancient Code. (2018, June 25). The Quinametzin giants of Aztec Mythology-Builders of the pyramid Of Cholula And Teotihuacan.
• InfinityExplorers. (2020, August 08). Quinametzin: The Pre-Hispanic giants that inhabited Mexico.
• Mexicanist. (2019, July 05). The QUINAMETZIN, the race of giants that inhabited Mexico.
• Mexicolore. (n.d.). What about the quinametzin giants in Aztec mythology?
• Michaels, D. (2020, May 27). The Quinametzin GIANTS.
• Zdeněk. (2018, February 24). Giant Quinametzin: Discovering 1995 in Central mexico: SUENEE Universe.

Share157Tweet98Share27ShareSend
Vladislav Tchakarov

Vladislav Tchakarov

Hello, my name is Vladislav and I am glad to have you here on Curiosmos. As a history student, I have a strong passion for history and science, and the opportunity to research and write in this field on a daily basis is a dream come true.

Related Posts

Meeting Between Cambyses II and Psammetichus III. A painting recreated by a French artist called Adrien Guignet. Wikimedia Commons.
Curious Lists

King Cambyses’ Lost Army: 10 Mysteries Surrounding the Vanished Persian Army

May 11, 2022 - Updated on January 21, 2024
The fortress-temple of Sacsayhuaman was built by the Incas as a fortification for the capital of Cuzco.
Curious Lists

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Ancient Peruvian Citadel of Sacsayhuaman

October 11, 2020 - Updated on February 11, 2023
Another high-resolution image of the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL Image Processing: E. Vandencbulek
Curious Lists

10 Fascinating Images Of Mars’ Surface Taken By NASA’s Viking Lander 2

December 18, 2020 - Updated on January 21, 2024
An artist’s rendering of Artificial Intelligence. Depositphotos.
Curious Lists

10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Completely Change the World by 2030

May 9, 2022 - Updated on January 21, 2024
The ancient stone rings that predate writing. An illustraton of the so-called Senegambian stone circles. Curiosmos.
Curious Lists

The ancient stone rings that predate writing — and may have mapped the sky

May 6, 2025
Ramesses the Great at Abu Simbel. Image Credit: Jumpstory.
Curious Lists

10 of the Most Influential Figures in Ancient History Before Christ

April 29, 2021 - Updated on January 21, 2024
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Fair Use Notice
  • DMCA / Removal
  • Impressum
  • Contact
  • Fact-Checking Policy
  • Ethics Policy
  • Ownership and Funding Information
  • Impressum
CURIOSMOS.COM

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Unsolved Mysteries
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Cosmic Phenomena
  • Alien Theories
  • Curious Lists