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How Did the "White" God Come to Mexico? Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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How Did the "White" God Come to Mexico? Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Most American schoolbooks claim that the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II
confused the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes for the Aztec god
Quetzalcoatl, a fabulous, fair-skinned priest king of ancient times
who had promised to return, which is why Moctezuma voluntarily
surrendered his mighty empire. In the past, the tale of
Quetzalcoatl has inspired many people to speculate about
pre-Columbian invaders from the Old World. It has also been abused
as another presumed proof of white supremacy. Indigenous
traditions, however, saw a Mexican Messiah who played an important
part in constructing the Mexican national identity. This book
demonstrates that the story of the returning god is a product of
"fake news" uttered by Cortes. It does so by analysing the most
important sources of the Quetzalcoatl-tale. A systematic
context-enlargement that also includes ethnographic information and
contemporary history reveals why and how Cortes constructed this
story, and why and how the Aztec elite adopted it. This method
proves to be an epistemological tool which allows researchers to
identify pre-Hispanic information in ethnohistorical texts of
colonial times. As a result, the true Quetzalcoatl behind the
legend comes to light.
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