Origins of Tenochtitlán According to legend, the Aztec people left their home city of Aztlan nearly 1,000 years ago. Scholars do not know where Aztlan was, but according to ancient accounts one of these Aztec groups, known as the Mexica, founded Tenochtitlán in 1325. Why did the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan?Read More →
Takuní is used when you greet somebody that you encounter in the road, in the mall, or on your way home. You can say, ta-ku-ní to a man, woman and child; it’s the common way to say “hello.” Sa-na—k-a’aha—yó, means “talk to you later” in Mixteco. Is Zapotec a languageRead More →
Founded in 1575 and designated a town in 1661, Aguascalientes (“Hot Waters”) was named for the area’s once-numerous thermal baths, which were considered medicinal. It became the capital when the state was created during the 1850s, and it is now home to more than three-fifths of the state’s population. IsRead More →
The worship of Quetzalcoatl sometimes included animal sacrifices, and in other traditions Quetzalcoatl was said to oppose human sacrifice. Mesoamerican priests and kings would sometimes take the name of a deity they were associated with, so Quetzalcoatl and Kukulcan are also the names of historical persons. What was Quetzalcoatl responsibleRead More →
Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. Is Apocalypto about Mayans or Aztecs? Mel Gibson’s latest film, Apocalypto, tells a story set in pre-Columbian Central America, with the Mayan Empire inRead More →