According to Aztec myth, how did the gods destroy the inhabitants of the earth?

There are many different stories of the Loss of the Ancients, the mythic event in which the first people disappeared from the earth. One version says that Tezcatlipoca (God of the night sky) stole the sun, but Quetzalcoatl (God of twins and learning) chased him and knocked him back down to earth with a stick. Tezcatlipoca then changed into a jaguar and devoured the people who lived in that world. The Aztecs combined versions of this story to explain the disappearance of people at the end of each of the four worlds that had existed before theirs. Carvings on a stone calendar found in 1790 tell how jaguars, wind, fire, and flood in turn destroyed the Ancients.