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Re: Aztec Myths
John Pastore (venture@CANCUN.RCE.COM.MX)
Fri, 24 May 1996 10:30:58 +0000
On 23 May 96 at 21:09, mike shupp wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 1996, John Pastore wrote:
>
> > The Aztec or Mexica myth can be viewd by some as part of the
> > legendizing propaganda that supposedly legitimizes the power which
> > traditionally asserts itself from the capitol, whose name is the
> > same as the country's.
>
> Then or now?
Now, as I would assume they knew from where they came then.
...Seriously, as the Resident Observer, how much
> credulence did non-Aztecs give the Aztec myths at the peak of
> the Aztec empire? (Not much is my impression, but I'm willing
> to be told I'm wrong.)
I suspect your impression: "not much" to be right. Why would
non-Aztecs care so much from where they came, as opposed to why they
were where they got to --given that the non-Aztecs were neighbors? In
the case where the non-Aztecs were not neighbors, as in "armenians", I
suspect they never gave it a first thought.
> And how reverently are the Aztecs remembered today, once one >
> gets away from Mexico City?
About as reverently as some residents of that city would like to
think of themselves as more the scions of that race, than any other
--diminishing as one removes oneself from that city in a trajectory,
more or less, equivelent to those trajectories taken by the famed
tribute-collector: Santa Ana.
Ka Xiik Keech Ya Utzil,
John Pastore
Writer/Guide in 'El Mayab'
("The Mayan Homeland")
venture@cancun.rce.com.mx
"A teepee is a pyramid, isn't it?"
Ka Xiik Keech Ya Utzil,
John Pastore
Writer/Guide in 'El Mayab'
("The Mayan Homeland")
venture@cancun.rce.com.mx
"A teepee is a pyramid, isn't it?"
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