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Culhuacan (Classical Nahuatl: Cōlhuàcān [koːlˈwaʔkaːn]) was one of the Nahuatl-speaking pre-Columbian city-states of the Valley of Mexico.According to tradition, Culhuacan was founded by the Toltecs under Mixcoatl and was the first Toltec city. [1]
It is sung from the perspective of a Chalcan noblewoman taken prisoner during the war with the Aztecs. The song highlighted how the Aztecs' hegemony had disproportionately devastated Chalcan women. Women were seen as relatively equal to men during times of peace but were condemned to sex slavery by the victors, a sanction that passed onto her ...
Ancient Aztec paintings often depict the boat floating on the flood waters beside a mountain. The heads of a man and a woman are shown in the air above the boat and a dove is also depicted. In its mouth the dove is carrying a hieroglyphic symbol representing the languages of the world, which it is distributing to the children of Coxcox.
Coxcoxtli (modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) was a king of city-state Culhuacán.. He had two children — a son called Huehue Acamapichtli and a daughter Atotoztli I, [1] who married Opochtli Iztahuatzin and bore him Acamapichtli, the first ruler of Tenochtitlan.
The city was conquered by the Aztecs in the 15th century, but the Aztecs considered the city to have status with early rulers marrying into Culhua nobility to legitimize themselves. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire , the Franciscans and later the Augustinians made Culhuacán a major evangelization center, with the latter building ...
Conchero dancers in Colonia Doctores, Mexico City Children performing Concheros in Mexico. The Concheros dance, also known as the dance of the Chichimecas, Aztecas and Mexicas, is an important traditional dance and ceremony which has been performed in Mexico since early in the colonial period.
Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1182-8. OCLC 11185910. John Bierhorst (1985). A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytical Transcriptions and Grammatical Notes. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1183-6. OCLC 11185890.
The Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaḁ] ⓘ; [3] singular Mēxihcātl) are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire.