The Doctrine of Mandate of Heaven Rule: Five Gods, Five Elements, and Five Destinies, Examination of the Origins of Clans Under Heaven

The long winds of September swept a thousand li east, accompanying the running messenger all the way to the end of the seacoast. The golden sun rose into the center of the sky, illuminating that ancient great city by the sea. And the black Death God Wolf Banner flew over the walls of Hidden Snake City, symbolizing the arrival of the king!

At this moment, thousands upon thousands of Imperial Guard warriors were patrolling tightly inside and outside the city. And in the most heavily guarded Hidden Snake Temple, Xolotl looked pleased as he watched the two third-rank historiographer high priests bowing before him, and gave their hair a satisfied clasp.

"May the Main God bless us! Good! Very good!... Pap, Imuyu, I am very satisfied with the outline of the ancestral epic you have reported back!..."

"Pap, the five symbolic divine objects of the five epochs you proposed—flame, Divine Tree, Blue Snake, Golden Eagle, Black Wolf—can be expanded further!... They are the five elements of the five epochs: fire, wood, water, metal, earth!... These five elements of the five epochs just happen to generate one another in reverse order, with what follows containing what came before: from wood comes fire, from water comes wood, from metal comes water, from earth comes metal... As for the specific explanation, hmm..."

At this point, Xolotl pondered for a moment and decided to stand on the shoulders of the Celestial Empire, remaking the Han Dynasty's "Theory of Five Virtues and Five Elements" into "Five Gods, Five Elements, and Five Destinies"! This was an American-style "Interaction Between Heaven and Mankind," that is, the Mesoamerican version of the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, to form a complete doctrine of heavenly mandate rule.

"The Main God has bestowed Divine Revelation! This is precisely