Ciudad de DiosesT1 - 02. La ruta del colibrí

I will serve as your guide. I will show you the way. Immediately the Aztecs began to come here. They exist. They are painted. They are named in the Aztec language. The history of the Mesoamerican nations is surrounded by wings of mystery, doubts about their origins and their unfortunate endings. Who founded Teotihuacan. What their inhabitants called it. And why they abandoned it. What were the reasons why the great Mayan capitals succumbed to premature declines. We know the destiny. end of tenostitlan But where did they come from, where is the Genesis of this nation that would dominate a large part of Mesoamerica, everything indicates that they followed, or at least that's how they wanted to believe it, the route of a God in the form of a hummingbird, what the myth tells us is that their God wiil postle truth through a whole series of aspects is going to mark the place to which they must arrive, not that hey land of promise where they are going to settle and where they are going to see the myth of the eagle standing on the cactus ancient cultures stark gods and colossal pyramids remains of stories modified by Conquerors and rewritten by time vestiges that refuse to remain buried so that one civilization can be born another have to be sacrificed city of gods like every town Like every person the micas do not arise from nothing they had solid foundations with which they would establish not only their ideals and cities but would build their past, explaining with them their present, thus directing the future that would finally reach them, where did this people come from that would amaze the European imagination of the 15th century, them in particular.

It seems that they come from the northern zone when we say the northern zone Because you see then we think that it is the northern zone of Mexico today, it is not the northern zone of Mesoamerica, a region that would go roughly so that people understand it between the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro and Zacatecas that is the Northern region of Mesoamerica in reality eh It has not been possible to determine the place eh where this supposed Aslan was located, that is, eh some researchers think that it was a little further north through Guanajuato others still a little further away eh that if an island nearby On the Pacific coast, none of this has been fully proven.

In fact, there are those who doubt that Aslan would have actually existed. There are those who think that it is actually a symbolism, a mythical aspect of the famous seven caves from which they come from. Aslan is where it is believed that the history of the men and women begins whose steps would find rest in the center of the Anaguac Valley seen in some codices including the obin and the pilgrimage strip as an island in the middle of a lake the place of The whiteness or the place of Las Garzas surely contains the greatest mysteries of the Meica culture, so whether or not that question existed.

It depends on how we ask it. It would be like for us to ask ourselves whether or not an earthly paradise existed. For example, if we are very skeptical about this secularized world in which we live we would say no, it would make no head or tail if we are very believers we would say that it undoubtedly existed the same thing happens with aslan which would be the closest pronunciation with aslan for the mexicas for them it was undoubtedly a real place Although They themselves could not locate it geographically and for us there would be a doubt about a location at the time of addition.

First, according to his own myths, he tries to have priests go to see and find this place in Aslan. In other words, at the time pre-Hispanic, there was no clear idea of ​​the location of the place, an expedition was sent to look for the place, they arrived in the vicinity of Tula Hidalgo and could not find the route ahead, which is not so strange because at that time the cultural border of Mesoamerica was there. It had already retreated, it no longer reached Zacatecas, it reached just the outskirts of the area of ​​Tula Hidalgo. Here the story is painted.

Here it is painted. From there the Mexicas came from a place called Astlan. It is in the middle of the water. Four came from there. neighborhoods and so they came to do penance in Canoa they came to offer their Ayatl Palms there in a place called kinay otl there It is where the eight neighborhoods in the pilgrimage strip came from the place of Las garzas is located to the north it is an island populated by seven neighborhoods or calpuli and we see a couple that could well be the heads of these neighborhoods or the couple that would generate the character that we will find inside a cave on a hill called col wacan.

Before talking about the head that emits words, let's focus on kinan otle the cave of the imminent exit also known as chicomostoc this place chicamostoc as aslan as teoc huacan and other sites that are mentioned are places of origin of various peoples of ablan agua and other Mesoamerican peoples are places of origin but they are lost in the geography and are lost in time Chicomostoc is the place of the seven Caves that is to say here you have to understand one thing and these seven Caves are supposed to be mythical that they were inhabited by seven peoples and that they are going to start leaving these Caves to come to populate the center of Mexico, let's remember that a good part of our geography is the product of volcanic formations, so they are immense cones, popocatepe, the Nevado de Toluca, the Peña de Bernal and countless other places, such as volcanic places, they have an infinite number of caves, you have to go do r de la Estrella just take a little walk and it's like a huge Gruer cheese, that's where the tradition of the seven caves comes from, all the towns somewhere at some point in their history.

Sorry, they say they came out of Chicomostoc in the counts made after the Spanish conquest. Not only are these seven Caves mentioned as the place of origin but they are directly linked to Aslan, giving it an Exact site. Fray Diego Durán in his history of the Indians of New Spain and the islands of the Tierra Firme says that these Caves are in te oculac which by another name is called asland Land that we all have news of falling towards the North part and Mainland of Florida, seven tribes of people left those seven Caves where they lived to come and look for this land which they called chic moste from where They come to pretend that their parents were born in some Caves in La Crónica micot by Fernando Alvarado tesosomoc we find the name by which they would finally be known.

The place of their dwelling is called Asla and that is why they are called Aztecs and their middle name is Chicomostoc and their names are those of Aztecs and Mexicans and today they are truly called Mexicans but later they came here to take the name of Tenochcas on said island in those Caves whose locations were buried by the thick layer that forms the passage of time and of which only vague memories that would be given among those ancient Mexicans is the Genesis of the nations of the people who would inhabit the center of Mesoamerica here they were born according to their own myths in reality we have to see the symbolism of these Caves Caves are matrixes in reality They are wombs that have and that give birth to people.

And these people begin to advance towards other regions, in this case towards the center of Mexico. In many ways, this chicomostoc is represented as if it were a kind of kidney or a kind of bag with seven nooks and crannies. It is a place that is described as cold, it is described as humid in which there is still no light in which the people live there but undifferentiated without their own characteristics speaking strange languages ​​that are not the Naguat language for example and that at some point they leave the Cave. From the cold, humid dark place they cease to be a bunch of undifferentiated peoples and acquire their particular name, the deity that shelters them and their own language, the Micas set the date on which the pilgrimage begins in search of that promised land, one tple or one flint, number one among the Micas, represented duality, beginning, end, a new destiny began for the people who left behind a story which reached its conclusion, for its part, flint indicated, given its characteristics and form, sexual penetration, this birth would have the date according to The Gregorian calendar 168 When they came, when they were following their path, they were no longer received anywhere, everywhere they were reprimanded, no one knew their face, everywhere they were told, Who are you, where do you come from after your stay in Chicomostoc or on the hill of Colhuacan?

Calpuli gathered there began their pilgrimage following, according to the versions, the words of their God or an important leader who would later be deified. According to Fray Diego Durán, there were seven tribes that would advance towards the south while on the pilgrimage strip we observe in a total of eight neighborhoods commanded by four teom mamaque or porters, much has been said about this pilgrimage in quotes because let's say eh. In reality, they settled in a place, sometimes lasting many years settled there, settling there, their population, they planted a cultural frontier that extended into the much more in the north possibly due to a climate change that we are already experiencing.

We are observing ourselves that part was drying out it had less water pressure less less water fell it was less prone to agriculture and therefore the towns there They already lived in Mesoamerican tradition because they had to emigrate, they had to retreat from that border and reach different sides of the Teak lakes in central Mexico. Some even reached Central America, crossing the entire area. emerged from the seven Caves who would accompany the Aztecs in search of better living conditions from there. They soon moved to Colhuacan. The inhabitants saw them. Then they told the Aztecs. Oh our lords, where are you going?

Let us accompany you. Then the Aztecs said where. We will take you there are seven pilgrimages Or rather seven migrations forced by economic and political conditions but that reflects not only those of these seven groups but of many more groups, all the peoples of central Mexico practically say they are foreigners, they say they come from a place in the north Within the journey undertaken from the place of Las Garzas, a site appears that would undoubtedly define the future of the future Tenochka nation Coatepec Cerro de la Serpent where they would finally settle and begin to shape that destiny designated by the man God who would supposedly be born in this place there is a very important point which is Cuatepec the chronicles say that it is close to And how they are going to establish themselves there and they are going to last a while since everything is already flowering they have already planted they have already stagnated the water so that there are fish anyway a fruitful place Tula, the former capital of the Toltecs, appeared as an important opportunity to create an identity that would differentiate them from other migrant peoples throughout Mesoamerica because Tula was, in the mentality of the ancients, how they referred to it because of their traditions.

The place where the ideal urve was was the place where the most famous character of ancient Mexico settled according to them seacat topil sinet alcat they over time had been idealizing Tula so all the Wonders had taken place there the cobs were giants they had to carried in the arms of four people who were gigantic, the pumpkins were monstrous, the corn, which was the essential food of Mesoamerica, could not be moved because it could even be burned, but a lawsuit is going to arise between the same members of the Mexica group because there is a neighborhood A group that belonged to the Wisnu, the Sureños, not to mention, is going to have the intention that they remain in that place.

So how do they ask that they settle there and those from the Wiil pó neighborhood say no, they should continue because that is not the case? the place that their God has given them And then comes the conflict and it is said that at night comes the fight between them and those of the thread group emerge triumphant post a moment It is true that we have not yet fully deciphered the origin of the god Colib Zurdo But why is Witzil Pole mentioned obeying the orders of another God Who is it? In the stories themselves, especially in those of a chronicler Cristóbal del Castillo, we are told how, let's say, they are in Aslan and we see there for the first time the presence of what appears to be a leader who is eh precisely wiil posli who by orders of this other God eh of one of a specific deity is going to begin to guide his people let's say towards that that place of promise no eh however in the course wiil dessert is going to die, that is, as a man and will be transformed into God tacate colotl teotl is the name by which the deity that guided the nagua groups on their pilgrimage was known.

He is the one who would take them to cuat to ask them later through the guide wiil posli continue advancing until you find the signs that will later describe the separation of the Micas and the remaining Calpuli is mentioned in the Obin codex of the 10th century and then he spoke to them and told them to order those who accompany you to the eight neighborhoods, tell them no. We will go alone here we will return When they told them many were saddened they the eight neighborhoods of what they had ordered them then they said the eight neighborhoods Oh our lords Where will we go because we will accompany you then again they told them Well you will not go alone it does not exist in the Mesoamerican world something similar to absolute evil, neither to absolute good nor is it foreign to that tradition, but the Judeo-Christian tradition is very expensive, so they had to look for an appropriate man to put the idea of ​​and take a tlac tecolo, which would be the letter: The human Tecolote, the humanized owl, name Given toIn this case, it was true in certain variations of the story collected in the 10th century.

Already in a Christian context of demonizing the god, then That's why it appears sometimes it appears as tacate cololo Although it would have the guilo Pole like every deida has many nicknames it does not have a single name One of them is guilo posle which is the one we know the Zurdo hummingbird hummingbird from the left side of the world another would be mesi from there The name Mesik, the people of Mesi are the Mica people, and the God is mighty because of the great wonders that the deity is supposed to have worked. That is the relationship and why this name is sometimes used, hence the importance of the Cerro de Cuatepec not only Because of its proximity to the ancient capital of the Toltecs but because of the birth of their most important God, the myths tell that the neighborhood commanded by Wiil and a woman that we already know, Coyol Shauki, would face each other centuries later in the full splendor of Tenostitlan to recreate this Serpent Hill. in its Great Temple with its hummingbird of the victorious south.

At the top and its dismembered sister at the foot of this artificial mountain, memories of a past that they would not forget that would show that they always knew who the Mexica were, drink like other peoples of the Basin of Mexico and of central Mexico in general of the ancient towns that previously inhabited those same regions, we are talking about the towns, in their case, the Toltecs that lived about 300 years before they appeared, the Teotihuacan towns that go more or less from the year 100 to 650 after Christ, even inheritances prior to the Christian era will incorporate aspects of these cultures and we will see how even here in the archaeological zone of the Great Temple we can appreciate, let's say, reminiscences of what the Meica takes Teotihuacán for.

For example, in some of their temples they have the slope, that is, this inclined wall with the typical Teotihuacan board, what's more, we are going to see even sculptures that they are going to imitate of Teotihuacan sculptures. It is a town that already has cultural elements that have very ancient characteristics that Typical of this area are being sedentary, knowing agriculture, knowing urban planning, Monumental architecture, Mesoamerican calendars and various institutions. So it is a town that is very old and already has those characteristics. Over the centuries it was believed that the Micas were a nomadic people, one more that wandered around the center of present-day Mexico until they managed to settle by founding their city, but as we have already seen, this is not the case.

The question was to find the right place, to finally glimpse the long-awaited promised land, if it is a people that are migrating from the northern zone will go out in search of better living conditions like any migrant, but they are not a nomadic hunter-gatherer people, they are a people that has agricultural customs that have customs of making architecture and in particular the Mexica are a people specializing in the city of la custre That's why they always look for island places, always look for lakes, always look for river mouths where they could settle. It was already a Mesoamerican people.

And we're going to see how quickly when we founded tenos titlan in 1325 AD, they're going to start to proliferate. immediately to build their city after leaving Cuatepec and separating from some groups, the Mexica continue their journey through different places which vary according to the chronicles that are read showing that it was not a single group that traveled well. There could have been several because we must assume how I had already mentioned that the Mexica did not migrate in a single homogeneous block all the time but rather they had to separate, have allies, some stayed more in one place, others separated, others returned.

Historical traditions refer precisely to a plurality of places where they settled by That would not be accurate to talk about a Mexica migration route but rather several routes in which different groups that later formed Tenostitlan were migrants, so nowhere could they settle, they were only thrown everywhere, they were persecuted, they came to go to Coatepec, they came to go to They immediately went to Chapultepec where many people came to settle and there was already a lordship in Ascapotzalco in Culhuacan but Mexico did not yet exist, there were still tulares and reed fields where Mexico is now Tula Atitalaquia Ecatepec Tepeyac Pantitlán Tenayuca Azcapotzalco and Popotla are mentioned as possible places where the steps of those men whose faces were unknown by the great cultural centers that already populated the Nahuac valley if we take as a reliable source the relations with the Gregorian calendar.

The Mica pilgrimage begins in 1168 when they abandon that lost land that today is Aslan and would culminate 157 years later when They discover, either physically or in a spiritual trance, the signs promised by their guardian God, the eagle standing on the cactus B B ah