Barbara_E._Mundy]_The_Death_of_Aztec_Tenochtitlan
30 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy the monumental architecture. But for the Mexica, the cur- rent may ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 31 1.1 and 2.4). Abundant freshwater springs flowed from the base of the hill, and the hilltop site ...
32 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy history of the Mexica written in Nahuatl at the beginning of the s ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 33 depressions and edges). Just as their human enemies con- tinually threatened the Mexica, so too d ...
34 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy figuRe 2.6. Unknown creator, map of household properties showing c ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 35 combine into one enormous lake. However, they were care- fully manipulated over centuries to turn ...
36 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy Mount Iztaccihuatl Mount Popocatepetl Lake Zumpanco Lake Te tzcoco ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 37 than in zones further east. By sealing off the laguna with a dike and preventing it from draining ...
38 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy Virgin of Guadalupe, and he, Nezahualcoyotl, was the first to make ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 39 causeway of Tepeyacac, looping outward toward the east to run along the city’s littoral and then ...
40 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy appearing as the slightly darker brown ground at center, and it wa ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 41 thus, on the Beinecke Map, the gray pigments used to rep- resent muddy earth at the edge of a wat ...
42 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy figuRe 2.10. Unknown creator, chacmool with Tlaloc mask, ca. 1500. ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 43 out of stone, and the number and small size of these works suggest that the locus of her worship ...
44 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy water itself, the force that makes the foam and whirlpools and edd ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 45 in central Mexican origin histories. The Nahua believed that the world had existed in four previo ...
46 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy down its front. At the top of the sculpture’s “stairs” is the imag ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 47 (see figure 1.3). At the center of the flat, carved-stone face is the eagle, which represents the ...
48 • The deaTh of azTec TenochTiTLan, The Life of mexico ciTy back, knees drawn up, holding a bowl for sacrificial offer- ings o ...
waTeR and The sacRed ciTy • 49 of the Teocalli shows us, then, that Mexica artists drew on long-standing and widespread spatial ...
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