Beautiful photographs

And one of my professors had an interesting theory on Tenochitlan's founding. The story is that the gods had told the Aztecs to look for an eagle perched on a cactus eating a serpent as the sign where they should build their city.

But my prof thought that the priests were tired of the Aztec being nomadic (partly because everyone hated them), and while Lake Texcoco, before being transformed by the Aztecs, was marshy, they wanted to stop there. There just happened to be an eagle eating a serpent on a cactus so they huddled together and hatched the plot that they would say it was a sign from the gods to build a city... oh, and start with our residences first, of course.

A lesser known part of the legend is that after seeing the eagle, one of the priests jumped into the lake and communicated with the rain and water god, Tlaloc, who verified that this was the spot. So I've tacked on to his theory that maybe there was some grumbling from the non-priests so they huddled together again and selected one of them to go "chat with Tlaloc" to help seal the deal.

Thanks for the post. Amazing work that the creators did for these visions. The portrait of the metropolis is great with Popocatepetl in the background. Will be driving that way the next couple of weeks but will avoid Mexico City, traffic there is crazy!

Have been intrigued with the culture, the ruins, the continuing findings from archaeologists, for decades. There's still so much to be learned as technology improves, as it steadily has already.

The creator of the material has done people an enormous favor working to bring this to the public. So beautiful! Looking forward to returning to examine it repeatedly.

Thank you.

















Still today the floating gardens are being used. Looks as if the Aztecs knew what they were doing!