The breed to which I belong , began with a myth and its fall with a prophecy . Myth : An eagle with open wings devouring a serpent fastened by their claws , facing the sun , perched on a cactus , on an island in a large lake. Since then visionary , the Mexican people began to develop and because of his bravery, courage and bravery in battle soon conquered other territories , forming alliances with the kings of Texcoco and Tacuba , reaching lands of Guatemala , Nicaragua and Honduras . The great island city of Tenochtitlan , had a population of over 150 thousand inhabitants and the taxes that they obtained from the subject peoples , served to support all its inhabitants ... just do all that much antagonism caused peoples under ...
The Prophecy : The Aztecs knew barbarian invaders of the land once belonged to other civilizations far more developed than them. Able to adapt and assimilate the best of these traditional customs , especially those of Mr. Toltec ( worship and wise man ) of Tula and Teotihuacan lords ( City of God ) . They adopted the traditional deities of Anahuac and Huitzilopochtli was worshiped both as Tlaloc , god of rain and agriculture in the new lands ... also erected a temple to Quetzalcòatl ( feathered serpent ) god worshiped in the beautiful and great city of Teotihuacan had arrived from the sea dry land , being a white bearded man . Preserved the prophecy issued by the struggle between Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcòatl . That dispute was talking about the preference of human sacrifice , Quetzalcòatl opposed them , but was defeated and eventually had to flee toward the Gulf of Mexico , leaving the promise and the threat of a return ... when Hernán Cortés , appears on the scene , off the coast of Tabasco, Moctezuma II sent messengers to spruce the conqueror with the clothing of the man-god , believing that it was èl , who was also white-skinned , bearded , welcoming . His advisers soothsayers , made him believe that it was Quetzalcòatl and had returned to announce the end of the Aztec empire . Cortes and his men skillfully interpreted the prophecy , the king underwent captivity tenochca And so to the final catastrophe consumption of my great race ...
Over the centuries, IX , X , XI , XII , XIV century until late in our continent , there were very outstanding cultures , such as the Olmec , the Maya - Quichè , the Zapotec , the Totonac , laTarasca , the Toltec . the Teotihuacan cultures were a cosmogony own , with writing, numeric and geometric systems , with timetables and political and social organization , very defined cultures It was very common developmental traits . Of course there were others that did not comply and were not even transcendent . But one of the more salient , was undoubtedly the Chichimeca - Mexica that from modest beginnings and through warfare and alliances , as well as adapting the cultural heritage of other more salient , able to consolidate a great and extensive empire , based on a system of exchange of goods , communications and very well organized tax regime . All that, did flourish MEXICO - TENOCHTITLAN who could only be defeated with Indian allies resented the submission , with a foreign power strategy , with highly developed war , covirtièndo our territories in the Viceroyalty of Spain .
It is assumed that the advent of the savage hordes late to the New World , using the Bering Strait, and the isolation of those cultures that developed in this part of the world , was one of the big reasons it advances starved beings Old World were , giving them greater accumulation of knowledge about ours . The development on these lands , was late : there were brass instruments, much less firearms, had deficiencies pack animals , the wheel does not exist. All this delay with respect to the Old World , the arrival of the Spanish , was a great disadvantage to fend off the inevitable onslaught of conquest and decisive .
The origin of the universe and of humanity itself , for the Aztecs , was rooted in religion : superstitious beliefs were very cruel and bloodthirsty . They believed that the world was dominated by supernatural forces and had to celebrate rites in all human activities to be protected by their gods . Many of these deities represented natural forces : Tlaloc , god of rain . They practiced the cult of the dead , burying them in the floors of their houses with food and objects venerating ones of the deceased , placed on the graves and believed in the immortality of the soul. Worshiped the elements: Earth, air, fire and water. They worshiped the sun, moon and other planets . Believed the legend of the five suns that speaks of five periods in which humanity has passed and which has reigned for a deity. In each round sunshine ended with a cataclysm and men have disappeared. With each rising sun, all returned to be reborn with the domination of a new deity . Now Azteca according to legend , lived on the fifth sun perish because of a great earthquake ... They forced slaves and prisoners to provide sun his body and blood to quench their thirst . That idea led to human sacrifice and cannibalism . These ideas are cosmological reported in the Aztec calendar . They had many priests and sorcerers who deified when they died ...
According to the existing codices , Tezcatlipoca ( smoking mirror ) and Quetzalcòatl ( feathered serpent ) originated the world . Legend has it that in the beginning there were only a primordial ocean and lived a monster named ahì Cipactli . Tezcatlipoca offered his foot as bait or lure and the monster emerged and ate . Then , Tezcatlipoca and seized èl Quetzalcòatl and extended to become the earth. Its multiple eyes , became ponds and lagoons and their nostrils are the caves. To repair the damage they did to montruo , Tezcatlipoca requires human sacrifices ...
The Mexica , are regarded as the chosen people of the sun , ensuring its journey through the sky and feeding . Affection Huitzilopochtli human sacrifices , was the principal Aztec deity , beating Quetzalcòatl for treason , pure and spiritual deity , to which deception make a drink intoxicating . Huitzilopochtli 's mother was Coatlicue , earth - mother , who conceived becoming pregnant with feathers or cotton ball that fell from the sky bluish while barria temples. Coyolxauhqui , one of the daughters along with his four brothers , decided to kill the child by considering it a family dishonor , but Huitzilopochtli was born and killed all making them the stars of the sky and then his sister, taking a Xuhcòatl fire - snake , shaping ax and won with great ease . She was dismembered by falling down the slopes of a hill and he took his sister's head and threw it to the sky , which became the moon , being Huitzilopochtli the Sun .. Quetzalcòatl to be expelled from Tula , for having forgotten his priestly duties , deceived by demons sent by Huitzilopochtli , who urged it to get drunk , became the star of the early Manna appearing beside the Popocatepetl volcano ...
The alley was vacuum packed when I started running into the night . Actually , it was not safe transit èl . Some people took it as a shortcut to begin entering the rough neighborhood . Peralvillo Street connecting with many other streets and our alley directly connected with it coming from Bias and that saved a bit of time instead of having to go to the street where was the Church of Santa Ana and then directly to market and ahì Granaditas , connect with many other sites like Toltec street or the Aztecs , plagued neighborhoods , which in fact were considered of more high risk and hazard . These were located in the very center of Tepito .
There were several legends in the alley Carbajal : La Llorona The saying wandered down the street at night. It was a woman who at the time of the Conquest , kill their children and roaming the dark streets, crying and sorry for them ... It is believed this is the Malinche ( baptized by the Spanish as Marina La Lengua ) who betrayed his people serving as interpreter and translator to the conquerors, providing our submission ... It was said in the neighborhood at night , appeared by neighborhoods shouting :Oh, my children , oh my children ! La Llorona has been kept alive since time immemorial by oral tradition and there are several versions of it , depending on the region in which the story ... To me in particular if I'm scared and do not know why , but the saleswoman cream in my neighborhood , Doña Marina , who lived in our backyard , it made me very exactly like Malinche : in all swim in, with all it had to do , and had brought a lot of gossip and sometimes , until I then wanted to smear their creams face which looked more like mamey smoothies , the color to white, green, pink
- So, I put a little honey, I took her face , pulling her ear starting .Mira that skin you , kid ...
To me that was an ordeal , but the bear because it was very attractive and had a good bigs breasts where I leaned to smear their menjurges me . But , smelled really bad , they were very fragrant smell of flowers ... These creams , I turned out horrible ...
Another legend in my alley, was the man ¨ ¨ Costal . My grandmother all the time I remembered
'I want you to know that around here, on the street, there is an old all dirty and ugly, which takes children who walk in the street bums and put them in a sack .
That to me was terrifying , and worse, is that if something in the neighborhood abounded , were the old dirty and ugly everywhere. Then to go out and play , nothing more I walked taking care not to trap me were those old .Grandmother Click scared me a lot with the things you told me ! ...
The white woman , was another traditional stories : It was a beautiful, floating on the floor and were single men appeared , inciting to treason. On many occasions , I got to listen to the ladies tell their husbands
- Do not ever mess with the woman in white , hey, you say you're married ... you will not forget!
- Jijoles ! , I was saying to myself . As rightly , I have seen that several gentlemen of the alley, fool around and not just wearing white reference purposes and is not even wait until it's dark ... Què things !
On occasion , a suddenly arrived early in the morning to the alley , several city government workers , to supposedly pave it . Calculations made their strokes and everywhere and which kicked off in a few hours seemed all aerial bombardment.
- Hey , what the hell are doing ! - They said many residents angrily - .Ni even notice that we had come to dig everywhere. I ended up with all the sidewalks !
Suffice to mention that all this ended in a pitched battle against the innocent workers who had no idea where they had gone to get .
They seized all the tools, wheelbarrows , shovels, sapapicos . The descamisaron , were caught by the hair and buffeted ; was injured , bruised , scratched . It was quite a fight as to who were already well used when confronted neighborhoods. Only, in that occasion , all were united and fought together against that mob of workers who ended up fleeing in terror to the vacant lots of parking railways ... for several days , authorities conducted a series of consultations on the neighborhood, for peace and tranquility , convincing neighbors of the alley, it was going to be for your good and you end up dust devils in the alley , but they had to accept the temporary discomfort . The agreement was that people participate in excavations and modifications and that they had to pay for it ... All this was for me an unforgettable experience :
Just came from my school , by that time , attending a private primary located in Calzada de Guadalupe , which to date there - Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Franciscan missionary , historian and defender of the Indians , I changed clothes and went ran to get a shovel to Delve into the alley. I was a worker who was doing something to beautify my neighborhood. A typical day , Saturday , we all dig emepezamos very early, as there was no school activities, someone shouted that under the floor , it looked the part of a canoe
- ! Here is a canoe ! - Was a terrible scream that must have listened to the garden of Tlatelolco , which was behind the High School Street Bias ...
We all ran to see the discovery . Immediately came the engineers and surveyors and carefully , were unearthing what by all accounts, was a canoe completita of pure steel .
They gave away part of the authorities and within an hour maximum, the relic , and had been climbing into a truck and taken who knows where , because they never knew anything about her. Version running in the alley, it was not steel , but pure gold, as the Aztecs did not know the metal ... Suffice to say in what was become our beloved Alley : neighbors came from other areas of the neighborhood to want dig where they happened, to try to find gold or silver or precious stones ...
- Listen, are you almost scratching at my door ! - They said very upset and angry neighbors - .Vàyanse intruders here, damn , ràsquense tail !
The authorities had to cordon off the area to prevent looting and lawsuits . But as we lived there , we kept digging , respecting the Agreement.The one of my excavations , I found several clay figures , very well made , representing some Aztec warriors , some very curious whistles , birds as paunchy , also made of mud and some arrowheads and black obsidian knives . Hands already had hurt me enough , even a finger became infected and had to retire when my grandmother discovered she had pus in the big toe , precisely where I leaned the stick blade ... paving, llegò to end our alley, was the beginning of modernity that still take long to settle in the neighborhood , and so, everything returned to normal, no one had found gold or silver, gemstones far . But, that yes , we could realize that coexisted with our ancestors, who had inhabited the places we were now placed us ...
The Prophecy : The Aztecs knew barbarian invaders of the land once belonged to other civilizations far more developed than them. Able to adapt and assimilate the best of these traditional customs , especially those of Mr. Toltec ( worship and wise man ) of Tula and Teotihuacan lords ( City of God ) . They adopted the traditional deities of Anahuac and Huitzilopochtli was worshiped both as Tlaloc , god of rain and agriculture in the new lands ... also erected a temple to Quetzalcòatl ( feathered serpent ) god worshiped in the beautiful and great city of Teotihuacan had arrived from the sea dry land , being a white bearded man . Preserved the prophecy issued by the struggle between Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcòatl . That dispute was talking about the preference of human sacrifice , Quetzalcòatl opposed them , but was defeated and eventually had to flee toward the Gulf of Mexico , leaving the promise and the threat of a return ... when Hernán Cortés , appears on the scene , off the coast of Tabasco, Moctezuma II sent messengers to spruce the conqueror with the clothing of the man-god , believing that it was èl , who was also white-skinned , bearded , welcoming . His advisers soothsayers , made him believe that it was Quetzalcòatl and had returned to announce the end of the Aztec empire . Cortes and his men skillfully interpreted the prophecy , the king underwent captivity tenochca And so to the final catastrophe consumption of my great race ...
Over the centuries, IX , X , XI , XII , XIV century until late in our continent , there were very outstanding cultures , such as the Olmec , the Maya - Quichè , the Zapotec , the Totonac , laTarasca , the Toltec . the Teotihuacan cultures were a cosmogony own , with writing, numeric and geometric systems , with timetables and political and social organization , very defined cultures It was very common developmental traits . Of course there were others that did not comply and were not even transcendent . But one of the more salient , was undoubtedly the Chichimeca - Mexica that from modest beginnings and through warfare and alliances , as well as adapting the cultural heritage of other more salient , able to consolidate a great and extensive empire , based on a system of exchange of goods , communications and very well organized tax regime . All that, did flourish MEXICO - TENOCHTITLAN who could only be defeated with Indian allies resented the submission , with a foreign power strategy , with highly developed war , covirtièndo our territories in the Viceroyalty of Spain .
It is assumed that the advent of the savage hordes late to the New World , using the Bering Strait, and the isolation of those cultures that developed in this part of the world , was one of the big reasons it advances starved beings Old World were , giving them greater accumulation of knowledge about ours . The development on these lands , was late : there were brass instruments, much less firearms, had deficiencies pack animals , the wheel does not exist. All this delay with respect to the Old World , the arrival of the Spanish , was a great disadvantage to fend off the inevitable onslaught of conquest and decisive .
The origin of the universe and of humanity itself , for the Aztecs , was rooted in religion : superstitious beliefs were very cruel and bloodthirsty . They believed that the world was dominated by supernatural forces and had to celebrate rites in all human activities to be protected by their gods . Many of these deities represented natural forces : Tlaloc , god of rain . They practiced the cult of the dead , burying them in the floors of their houses with food and objects venerating ones of the deceased , placed on the graves and believed in the immortality of the soul. Worshiped the elements: Earth, air, fire and water. They worshiped the sun, moon and other planets . Believed the legend of the five suns that speaks of five periods in which humanity has passed and which has reigned for a deity. In each round sunshine ended with a cataclysm and men have disappeared. With each rising sun, all returned to be reborn with the domination of a new deity . Now Azteca according to legend , lived on the fifth sun perish because of a great earthquake ... They forced slaves and prisoners to provide sun his body and blood to quench their thirst . That idea led to human sacrifice and cannibalism . These ideas are cosmological reported in the Aztec calendar . They had many priests and sorcerers who deified when they died ...
According to the existing codices , Tezcatlipoca ( smoking mirror ) and Quetzalcòatl ( feathered serpent ) originated the world . Legend has it that in the beginning there were only a primordial ocean and lived a monster named ahì Cipactli . Tezcatlipoca offered his foot as bait or lure and the monster emerged and ate . Then , Tezcatlipoca and seized èl Quetzalcòatl and extended to become the earth. Its multiple eyes , became ponds and lagoons and their nostrils are the caves. To repair the damage they did to montruo , Tezcatlipoca requires human sacrifices ...
The Mexica , are regarded as the chosen people of the sun , ensuring its journey through the sky and feeding . Affection Huitzilopochtli human sacrifices , was the principal Aztec deity , beating Quetzalcòatl for treason , pure and spiritual deity , to which deception make a drink intoxicating . Huitzilopochtli 's mother was Coatlicue , earth - mother , who conceived becoming pregnant with feathers or cotton ball that fell from the sky bluish while barria temples. Coyolxauhqui , one of the daughters along with his four brothers , decided to kill the child by considering it a family dishonor , but Huitzilopochtli was born and killed all making them the stars of the sky and then his sister, taking a Xuhcòatl fire - snake , shaping ax and won with great ease . She was dismembered by falling down the slopes of a hill and he took his sister's head and threw it to the sky , which became the moon , being Huitzilopochtli the Sun .. Quetzalcòatl to be expelled from Tula , for having forgotten his priestly duties , deceived by demons sent by Huitzilopochtli , who urged it to get drunk , became the star of the early Manna appearing beside the Popocatepetl volcano ...
The alley was vacuum packed when I started running into the night . Actually , it was not safe transit èl . Some people took it as a shortcut to begin entering the rough neighborhood . Peralvillo Street connecting with many other streets and our alley directly connected with it coming from Bias and that saved a bit of time instead of having to go to the street where was the Church of Santa Ana and then directly to market and ahì Granaditas , connect with many other sites like Toltec street or the Aztecs , plagued neighborhoods , which in fact were considered of more high risk and hazard . These were located in the very center of Tepito .
There were several legends in the alley Carbajal : La Llorona The saying wandered down the street at night. It was a woman who at the time of the Conquest , kill their children and roaming the dark streets, crying and sorry for them ... It is believed this is the Malinche ( baptized by the Spanish as Marina La Lengua ) who betrayed his people serving as interpreter and translator to the conquerors, providing our submission ... It was said in the neighborhood at night , appeared by neighborhoods shouting :Oh, my children , oh my children ! La Llorona has been kept alive since time immemorial by oral tradition and there are several versions of it , depending on the region in which the story ... To me in particular if I'm scared and do not know why , but the saleswoman cream in my neighborhood , Doña Marina , who lived in our backyard , it made me very exactly like Malinche : in all swim in, with all it had to do , and had brought a lot of gossip and sometimes , until I then wanted to smear their creams face which looked more like mamey smoothies , the color to white, green, pink
- So, I put a little honey, I took her face , pulling her ear starting .Mira that skin you , kid ...
To me that was an ordeal , but the bear because it was very attractive and had a good bigs breasts where I leaned to smear their menjurges me . But , smelled really bad , they were very fragrant smell of flowers ... These creams , I turned out horrible ...
Another legend in my alley, was the man ¨ ¨ Costal . My grandmother all the time I remembered
'I want you to know that around here, on the street, there is an old all dirty and ugly, which takes children who walk in the street bums and put them in a sack .
That to me was terrifying , and worse, is that if something in the neighborhood abounded , were the old dirty and ugly everywhere. Then to go out and play , nothing more I walked taking care not to trap me were those old .Grandmother Click scared me a lot with the things you told me ! ...
The white woman , was another traditional stories : It was a beautiful, floating on the floor and were single men appeared , inciting to treason. On many occasions , I got to listen to the ladies tell their husbands
- Do not ever mess with the woman in white , hey, you say you're married ... you will not forget!
- Jijoles ! , I was saying to myself . As rightly , I have seen that several gentlemen of the alley, fool around and not just wearing white reference purposes and is not even wait until it's dark ... Què things !
On occasion , a suddenly arrived early in the morning to the alley , several city government workers , to supposedly pave it . Calculations made their strokes and everywhere and which kicked off in a few hours seemed all aerial bombardment.
- Hey , what the hell are doing ! - They said many residents angrily - .Ni even notice that we had come to dig everywhere. I ended up with all the sidewalks !
Suffice to mention that all this ended in a pitched battle against the innocent workers who had no idea where they had gone to get .
They seized all the tools, wheelbarrows , shovels, sapapicos . The descamisaron , were caught by the hair and buffeted ; was injured , bruised , scratched . It was quite a fight as to who were already well used when confronted neighborhoods. Only, in that occasion , all were united and fought together against that mob of workers who ended up fleeing in terror to the vacant lots of parking railways ... for several days , authorities conducted a series of consultations on the neighborhood, for peace and tranquility , convincing neighbors of the alley, it was going to be for your good and you end up dust devils in the alley , but they had to accept the temporary discomfort . The agreement was that people participate in excavations and modifications and that they had to pay for it ... All this was for me an unforgettable experience :
Just came from my school , by that time , attending a private primary located in Calzada de Guadalupe , which to date there - Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Franciscan missionary , historian and defender of the Indians , I changed clothes and went ran to get a shovel to Delve into the alley. I was a worker who was doing something to beautify my neighborhood. A typical day , Saturday , we all dig emepezamos very early, as there was no school activities, someone shouted that under the floor , it looked the part of a canoe
- ! Here is a canoe ! - Was a terrible scream that must have listened to the garden of Tlatelolco , which was behind the High School Street Bias ...
We all ran to see the discovery . Immediately came the engineers and surveyors and carefully , were unearthing what by all accounts, was a canoe completita of pure steel .
They gave away part of the authorities and within an hour maximum, the relic , and had been climbing into a truck and taken who knows where , because they never knew anything about her. Version running in the alley, it was not steel , but pure gold, as the Aztecs did not know the metal ... Suffice to say in what was become our beloved Alley : neighbors came from other areas of the neighborhood to want dig where they happened, to try to find gold or silver or precious stones ...
- Listen, are you almost scratching at my door ! - They said very upset and angry neighbors - .Vàyanse intruders here, damn , ràsquense tail !
The authorities had to cordon off the area to prevent looting and lawsuits . But as we lived there , we kept digging , respecting the Agreement.The one of my excavations , I found several clay figures , very well made , representing some Aztec warriors , some very curious whistles , birds as paunchy , also made of mud and some arrowheads and black obsidian knives . Hands already had hurt me enough , even a finger became infected and had to retire when my grandmother discovered she had pus in the big toe , precisely where I leaned the stick blade ... paving, llegò to end our alley, was the beginning of modernity that still take long to settle in the neighborhood , and so, everything returned to normal, no one had found gold or silver, gemstones far . But, that yes , we could realize that coexisted with our ancestors, who had inhabited the places we were now placed us ...
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