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2 days ago · The death of Moctezuma (1) We are hugely indebted to our Experts Panellist and good friend Professor Patrick Johansson - Researcher in Pre-Columbian History, Institute of Historical Research, and Professor of Nahuatl Literature, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, National University of Mexico (UNAM) - for this deeply insightful article written specially for us on the controversy surrounding ...
4 days ago · The earliest Franciscan friars to enquire after this ancient deity describe her as a goddess of insatiable love, of infidelity, and of garbage. In fact, Tlazolteotl was a very important goddess amongst the Nahua, fulfilling several functions (Mikulska, 2008; Gajewska, 2015). She was the patroness of spinning and weaving, of earthly fertility ...
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4 days ago · Con Moctezuma I, alcanzó su esplendor la escultura imperial mexica. México antiguo. Chimalpopoca . María Castañeda de la Paz.
5 days ago · Pic 2: The younger brother of Moctezuma I lies naked at the foot of a ceremonial pole-and-platform, having thrown himself from the top after being captured by the Chalca (whose ruler is seated on the left). Tovar Manuscript fol. 107 (Click on image to enlarge) Other famous Aztec suicides include:_. • The third ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan ...
5 days ago · This detailed study of Isabel de Moctezuma, affectionately called ‘the last Mexica princess’, was kindly written specially for us by Anastasia Kalyuta, an ethnohistorian based at the Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, who has undertaken extensive research on Isabel’s life at the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain.
4 days ago · Eventually, Moctezuma — fully sated on magic mushrooms — emerges. Here he is, the mighty ruler of the “fear-producing machine” that is Tenochtitlan. And what happens?
1 day ago · 1492–93 – Columbus reaches the Caribbean; start of permanent Spanish settlements. 1493–1515 – Spanish exploration, conquest, enslavement, and settlement in the Caribbean and the Spanish Main. 1502 – Moctezuma II elected huey tlatoani, emperor [literally: "Great Speaker"] of the Aztec Triple Alliance.
