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Mysteries of the Fifth Sun: the Aztec Calendar
--Valley of Anahuac, New Year's Eve, 1507. Tenochtitlán, the great island city, capital of the Mexica empire, lies cloaked in...
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Aztec Hamlet: the tragedy of Moctezuma 2
In history, there are innumerable cases of dynasties toppling because of the weakness of incumbents. The incompetence of do-no...
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Star Snake - stories for a culture of peace
"Star Snake" is a short story about a young Aztec warrior and a short history of the rise of the Aztec Empire. It was written ...
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Guided tour at the La Paz, Museum
During our Mexican travels, it was often said to us by veteran travelers to Mexico that one travels to the Baja for the "beach...
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Early pictorial and written sources of Aztec history
The pre-Hispanic history of Mexico is contained in the numerous pictorial codices or painted hieroglyphic books produced by th...
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Aztec symbolism: part two
The Internet is an invaluable source of information but it can also be a source of misinformation and great confusion. Recentl...
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Reinventing the Aztecs, part one
Perhaps no people on earth have been so maligned on the one hand and so highly praised on the other as the ancient Aztecs of M...
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Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history
In Part One we looked at a new interpretation of ancient Aztec literature, which, if correct, calls into question, perhaps eve...
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Primary sources
The Maya, Aztecs, and other peoples of ancient Mexico had a very strong sense of their own history, which they went to great l...
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Reinventing the Aztecs - part three Mexican history
In previous articles we looked at some Aztec lyric poems contained in the Cantares Mexicanos and other manuscript collections....
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The Aztecs speak - part 4
The Spanish returned. With Cuitlahuac, the brother of Moctezuma who had advised against welcoming the Conquistadors, now elect...
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The Aztecs speak - part 3
Quetzalcoatl was coming. Moctezuma had already sent wizards, magicians and seers, to cast spells that would destroy or at leas...
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Part 2 - the Aztecs speak
Perhaps the most startling thing revealed by the Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico, is that unknowingly, the Conquistado...
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The Aztecs speak - an Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico
An Aztec account of the Conquest of Mexico? Preposterous. It is common knowledge that those manuscripts that escaped destructi...
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Aztec by Gary Jennings
I found this novel to be a total winner. In fact, it just kept on getting better and better and I can’t recommend it highly ...
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Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings
Readers of these reviews may remember that I was a big fan of Jenning’s previous work, Aztec. I gave it my highest accolade ...
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Mexico by James Michener
The good thing about "Mexico" is that Michener has done enormous research in order to write it....
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Malinalco, Mexico - A Font Of Mexico's History
As you drive the winding road into town, you catch glimpses of it perched like an eagle's aerie on a ridge of the mountains th...
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Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species
Who hasn’t been amazed by the acrobatic antics of hummingbirds? What stunt flyers! They are able to fly not only forwards, b...
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Did You Know? The oldest ballgame in the Americas
Baseball is not the oldest ballgame in the Americas Forget modern "traditions" like the World Series! Forget soccer, tennis an...
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Did you know? Mexico's Domesday Book
Mexico's equivalent of the Domesday book was compiled in the sixteenth century. History shows that conquerors often have very ...
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Aztec Calendar
Mexica/Aztec Calendar Systems The Civil Calendar The solar year was the basis for the civil calendar by which the Mexicas (Azt...
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Arteplumaria - the Mexican art of feather painting
Did you know that one of the highest, most elegant and sumptuous arts of pre-Conquest Mexico was arteplumaria, the art of feat...
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The Peoples of Mexico
Mexico is a country of colour, diversity, grand differences in geography, climate and perspective. The same is true of her peo...
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The Post Classic Period ( 900 - 1521 ) Part 2: The Aztecs
By the 13th century the entire region, then called the Valley of Anahuac, was occupied by assorted rival city-states. Among th...
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