Aztecs and incas : AD 1300-1532.

Los pueblos azteca e inca crearon grandes imperios en Centroamérica y Sudamérica, respectivamente.Los aztecas, procedentes de Asia, se instalaron primero en Alaska y después en el norte y centro de México, donde fundaron Tenochtitlán y, se expandieron hasta la costa del Golfo de México, en el reinado de Montezuma.Por su parte,los incas se extendieron por los territorios que actualmente corresponden a Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y parte de Chile y fundaron Cuzco. Aunque ambas civilizaciones fueron destruidas en el siglo XVI por los españoles,conocemos bastante de ellas por las descripciones de los conquistadores y también por la gran cantidad de restos conservados.

The primitive Aryans of America; origin of the Aztecs and kindred tribes, showing their relationship to the Indo-Iranians and the place of the Nauatl or Mexican in the Aryan group of languages,

"Authorities consulted": p. 171-181.

The sun kingdom of the Aztecs.

Includes bibliography.

Our sister republic: a gala trip through tropical Mexico in 1869-70. Adventure and sight-seeing in the land of the Aztecs, with picturesque descriptions of the country and the people, and reminiscences of the empire and its downfall.

Mode of access: Internet.

Through the land of the Aztecs;

Mode of access: Internet.

The Aztecs;

Tr of: Les Azteques

Huitlacoche yield in some maize varieties in the Mediterranean region of Turkey

Huitlacoche is the Aztecs name given to the smut galls on ears of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis [(DC) Corda.)]. It is known as maize mushroom, and it has been considered a delicacy and in Mesoamerica. The aim of the present study was to determine the responses of some maize varieties to the growth of the fungus in order to evaluate the prospect production of these smutty ears as a maize mushroom. A 2-year study was conducted in the Mediterranean region of Turkey in 2010 and 2011. Inoculations were performed by injecting inoculum into the ear through the silk channel of plants in plots. Each treatment had control plots. Average ear-gall (huitlacoche) severity and incidence of all the varieties were at the rates of 4.0 and 41.6%, respectively. However, the highest severity of ear-gall (6.5) and incidence (60.6%) were found in Karadeniz Yıldızı flint maize variety; colossal smutty ears were formed in the maize cultivars. This study showed that certain maize cultivars (flint corn and dent corn) can be used efficiently in the production of huitlacoche.

Reinterpreting Coatlicue : the Sculptural Narrative of Defeat at the Shrine of Huitzilopochtli

"Images of the decapitated, dismembered female warrior Coyolxauhqui, a main character in the Mexica mythology of Huitzilopochtli, figured prominently in Imperial Mexica sculptural campaigns at the Templo Mayor. However, monoliths of a terrifying, dismembered female from the shrine have traditionally been identified as Huitzilopochtli’s nurturing mother Coatlicue, or permutations of goddesses. Such studies do not adequately address why these sculptures depict mutilated beings whose characteristics are antithetical to Coatlicue’s appropriate female behavior depicted in myths and images"

The Aztec god, and other dramas,

The Aztec god.--Columbus.--Cecil the seer.

Histoire générale des choses de la nouvelle-Espagne /

Translation of Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España.

Peregrinación de los Aztecas y Nombres geográficos indígenas de Sinaloa,

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Around the Origin of the Images in the Veintena Section of the "Primeros Memoriales" by fray Bernardino de Sahagún

By examining the pictorial content of the veintena section of the Primeros Memoriales, the manusctipt compiled by fray Bernardino de Sahagún, I identify new pieces of evidence on the origin of these illustrations and their authors. A carefull analisis of this material suggests that it is strongly embedded in the pre-Hispanic tradition and that it is doubtful that their iconographic sources originated in Tepeopolco, as it is widely believed.