Fifth World (mythology)
The idea that the current world came into being after four other cycles of creation and destruction, found in Aztec, Navajo, and Hopi mythologies
The Fifth World in the context of creation myths describes the present world as interpreted by several indigenous groups in the USA and Mexico. 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 M... Wikipedia