Aztecs: An InterpretationIn 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the mannered violence of their ritual killings. |
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... Huitzilopochtli ' qua , quo is pronounced kw as in ' Etzalqualiztli ' que , qui is pronounced k , as in ' Quetzalcoatl ' , ' Panquetzaliztli ' , ' Coyolxauq ( h ) ui ' tl is pronounced like the English ' atlas ' , as in ' Tlaxcala ...
... Huitzilopochtli ' qua , quo is pronounced kw as in ' Etzalqualiztli ' que , qui is pronounced k , as in ' Quetzalcoatl ' , ' Panquetzaliztli ' , ' Coyolxauq ( h ) ui ' tl is pronounced like the English ' atlas ' , as in ' Tlaxcala ...
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... Huitzilopochtli, and conquered in his name. But temporal and cultural distance can lend a spurious simplicity and clarity which denies the rich muddle of a more local view. It is possible that the carrier squatting back on his heels in ...
... Huitzilopochtli, and conquered in his name. But temporal and cultural distance can lend a spurious simplicity and clarity which denies the rich muddle of a more local view. It is possible that the carrier squatting back on his heels in ...
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... Huitzilopochtli, God of War, and to Tlaloc, God of Rain, a full sixty metres in the clear air. As the Spaniards were to discover, only the pyramids lent the elevation necessary for the full apprehension of the city's majestic order, as ...
... Huitzilopochtli, God of War, and to Tlaloc, God of Rain, a full sixty metres in the clear air. As the Spaniards were to discover, only the pyramids lent the elevation necessary for the full apprehension of the city's majestic order, as ...
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... Huitzilopochtli spoke to his people, and then went on to the first place of temporary set- tlement, where (as was to be their custom) a temple to Huitzilopochtli was erected. At another place a mysteri- ously broken tree was taken as a ...
... Huitzilopochtli spoke to his people, and then went on to the first place of temporary set- tlement, where (as was to be their custom) a temple to Huitzilopochtli was erected. At another place a mysteri- ously broken tree was taken as a ...
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... Huitzilopochtli at last gave them a sign , or so they were to claim in the days of their greatness . There , once again in a place surrounded by water and thick with pale reeds , ' Aztlan ' re - found , they saw a great eagle perched ...
... Huitzilopochtli at last gave them a sign , or so they were to claim in the days of their greatness . There , once again in a place surrounded by water and thick with pale reeds , ' Aztlan ' re - found , they saw a great eagle perched ...
Contents
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Local Perspectives | 63 |
Victims | 121 |
Warriors Priests and Merchants | 156 |
The Masculine Self Discovered | 200 |
Wives | 216 |
Mothers | 246 |
The Female Being Revealed | 292 |
Aesthetics | 301 |
The World Transformed the World | 333 |
Defeat | 375 |
Select Bibliography | 511 |
Index | 545 |
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action Aztec battle Bernardino de Sahagún blood body Borbonicus calpulli Cantares Mexicanos captives ceremonial chapter conquest Cortés cultural dance death deity Diego Durán display eagle earth edited empire feast feathers female festival fire flayed flesh Florentine Codex flowers formal girls goddess gods heart Historia honour household Huitzilopochtli human Ibid images imperial Indian ixiptlas jaguar Johanna Broda León-Portilla living López Austin lords maguey maize male merchants Mesoamerican metaphor Mexica Mexico City Miguel León-Portilla Moctezoma mother Nahua Nahuatl noble Nonetheless notion Nueva España Ochpaniztli offered one’s painted Panquetzaliztli performance perhaps Press priestly priests pulque pyramid quetzal Quetzalcoatl Quiñones Keber regalia representations rior ritual ruler sacred power Sahag´un’s sexual skin slaves social society song Spaniards Spanish Templo Mayor Tenochtitlan Texcoco Tezcatlipoca thou tion Tlaloc Tlatelolco tlatoani Toci Toltec translation tribute valley victims warrior house woman women Xipe Totec young