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La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
León-Portilla, Miguel; Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World University of Oklahoma Press, October 2000. Prescott, William; The History of the Conquest of Mexico , Book 1, Chapter 6. Lee, Jongsoo; "A reinterpretation of Nahuatl poetics: Rejecting the image of Nezahualcoyotl as a peaceful poet" in Colonial Latin American Review , December 2003, Vol ...
Women who died in childbirth went to the west and accompanied the sun when it set in the evening. [6] People who died of drowning — or from other causes that were linked to the rain god Tlaloc, such as certain diseases and lightning — went to a paradise called Tlalocan. [1]
A woman, Cihuatcoatl, weeping in the middle of the night for them (the Aztecs) to "flee far away from this city" Montezuma II saw the stars of mamalhuatztli, and images of fighting men riding "on the backs of animals resembling deer", in a mirror on the crown of a bird caught by fishermen; A two headed man, tlacantzolli, running through the streets
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Spanish title: Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista; lit."Vision of the Defeated: Indigenous relations of the conquest") is a book by Mexican historian Miguel León-Portilla, translating selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
A figure of a cihuateotl, the spirit of an Aztec woman who died in childbirth. In Aztec mythology, the Cihuateteo (/ s iː ˌ w ɑː t ɪ ˈ t eɪ oʊ /; Classical Nahuatl: Cihuātēteoh, in singular Cihuātēotl) or "Divine Women", were the spirits of women who died in childbirth. [1] They were likened to the spirits of male warriors who died ...
Middle of 15th Century Tochihuitzin, son of Itzcoatl , was ruler of Teotlatzinco . Tochihuitzin and his brothers helped save Nezahualcoyotl from being captured by the Azcapotzalca that Nezahualcoyotl found refuge with the Mexica .
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.