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Title: The myths of Mexico and Peru
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Indian mythology Indians of Mexico Indians of South America Indian mythology Indians of South America
Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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al arrival were theAculhuaque, or Acolhuans. The name means tall orstrong men, literally People of the Broad Shoulder,or Pushers, who made a way for themselves. Gomarastates in his Conquista de Mexico that they arrived in thevalley from Acolhuacan about a.d. 780, and foundedthe towns of Tollan, Colhuacan, and Mexico itself.The Acolhuans were pure Nahua, and may well havebeen the much-disputed Toltecs, for the Nahua peoplealways insisted on the fact that the Toltecs were of thesame stock as themselves, and spoke an older andpurer form of the Nahua tongue. From the Acolhuanssprang the Tlascalans, the inveterate enemies of theAztecs, who so heartily assisted Cort6s in his invasionof the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, or Mexico. The Tecpanecs The Tecpanecs were a confederacy of purely Nahuatribes dwelling in towns situated upon the Lake ofTezcuco, the principal of which were Tlacopan andAzcapozalco. The name Tecpanec signifies that eachsettlement possessed its own chiefs house, or tecpan.26
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r^ S m D V § 3 3 en S (4-1 rt oT o 3 S ^ z n < C) (U S Xi c 5 f- (ii THE AZTEC CHARACTER This tribe were almost certainly later Nahua immigrantswho arrived in Mexico after the Acolhuans, and weregreat rivals to the Chichimec branch of the race. The Aztecs The Azteca, or Aztecs, were a nomad tribe of doubtfulorigin, but probably of Nahua blood. Wandering overthe Mexican plateau for generations, they at lengthsettled in the marshlands near the Lake of Tezcuco,hard by Tlacopan. The name Azteci means CranePeople, and was bestowed upon the tribe by theTecpanecs, probably because of the fact that, likecranes, they dwelt in a marshy neighbourhood. Theyfounded the town of Tenochtitlan, or Mexico, andfor a while paid tribute to the Tecpanecs. But laterthey became the most powerful allies of that people,whom they finally surpassed entirely in power andsplendour. The Aztec Character The features of the Aztecs as represented in thevarious Mexican paintings are typically Indian, and arguea nor

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