Aztec Legends
Legends: Ancient stories that have been told from generation to generation and, everyone will be implementing something new to the story, in some parts it´s true, and when time passes it becomes with more lies than the truth. they can tell a story that's all lies
Legend of maize
God Quetzalcoatl was the god that changed the gastronomy of the aztecs, before its arrival the aztecs only ate roots and game animals, they didn´t eat corn because was so far far away. Other gods seeked the victory of the aztec town, in the corn hunt. the aztec town implored to the god of gods to help them find their precious food, he said he will go on a search and will arrive with the precious food. All gods used their powers for the corn hunt, but Quetzalcoatl …show more content…
used its intelligence. Quetzalcoatl changed form from a bird to an ant, and went to his search of bringing the corn grain, then the corn was planted.
Pan de muerto
The history of this mexican an delicious bread is from the aztecs’ time, from their sacrifices and rites in honor of Huitzilopochtli, god of war, they were seen as a ritual instead of human sacrifices, if you see the bread it will have a protuberance on the top part, representing a human skull, then there is the 4 bones that depend of the skull and they lay down from the skull.
It represents a human body.
LA LLORONA
The famous “La llorona” she was an indigenous woman who had loves with a Spanish conqueror, fruit of which it had three children were born. But the man prefirió to marry a Spanish lady and the aborigen maddened hung his children, threw them to a river and then she itself killed itself. The legend counts that from entonce the soul in a sorrow of the woman crosses the channels and rivers shouting: “¡Ay mis hijos!, ¡ay mis hijos!("sigh my children ... sigh my children!").
The Legend of the Foundation of Tenochtitlan
At the beginning of the 14th century the Aztecs were a tribe seated in Aztlán, possibly located in Nayarit's current condition, Mexico. It counts the legend that in 1325 they sacrificed to a princess of Culhuacan and had to escape towards a swampy island of the lake Texcoco. Here, his leader Tenoch saw a tunal where an eagle was devouring a serpent: it was the sign of the god Huitzilopochtli to found a new city. This way there was born the grand Tenochtitlán, the capital of the future Aztec
Empire
The Legend of Popocatepetl & Iztaccíhuatl A Love Story
Izta a beautiful princess, Popo the warrior who would take care of it without end. Popo had to go and fight hard opposite to the battle and before the rumor of which I mock he had died, izta expired to the instant. I mock return with the total delivery that gives the real transcendency and the gods gave them the eternity. Unfortunately Izta had died and as gift of the gods the mountains Popocatepetl and Iztlazihuatl were created
Legend of maize
God Quetzalcoatl was the god that changed the gastronomy of the aztecs, before its arrival the aztecs only ate roots and game animals, they didn´t eat corn because was so far far away. Other gods seeked the victory of the aztec town, in the corn hunt. the aztec town implored to the god of gods to help them find their precious food, he said he will go on a search and will arrive with the precious food. All gods used their powers for the corn hunt, but Quetzalcoatl …show more content…
used its intelligence. Quetzalcoatl changed form from a bird to an ant, and went to his search of bringing the corn grain, then the corn was planted.
Pan de muerto
The history of this mexican an delicious bread is from the aztecs’ time, from their sacrifices and rites in honor of Huitzilopochtli, god of war, they were seen as a ritual instead of human sacrifices, if you see the bread it will have a protuberance on the top part, representing a human skull, then there is the 4 bones that depend of the skull and they lay down from the skull.
It represents a human body.
LA LLORONA
The famous “La llorona” she was an indigenous woman who had loves with a Spanish conqueror, fruit of which it had three children were born. But the man prefirió to marry a Spanish lady and the aborigen maddened hung his children, threw them to a river and then she itself killed itself. The legend counts that from entonce the soul in a sorrow of the woman crosses the channels and rivers shouting: “¡Ay mis hijos!, ¡ay mis hijos!("sigh my children ... sigh my children!").
The Legend of the Foundation of Tenochtitlan
At the beginning of the 14th century the Aztecs were a tribe seated in Aztlán, possibly located in Nayarit's current condition, Mexico. It counts the legend that in 1325 they sacrificed to a princess of Culhuacan and had to escape towards a swampy island of the lake Texcoco. Here, his leader Tenoch saw a tunal where an eagle was devouring a serpent: it was the sign of the god Huitzilopochtli to found a new city. This way there was born the grand Tenochtitlán, the capital of the future Aztec
Empire
The Legend of Popocatepetl & Iztaccíhuatl A Love Story
Izta a beautiful princess, Popo the warrior who would take care of it without end. Popo had to go and fight hard opposite to the battle and before the rumor of which I mock he had died, izta expired to the instant. I mock return with the total delivery that gives the real transcendency and the gods gave them the eternity. Unfortunately Izta had died and as gift of the gods the mountains Popocatepetl and Iztlazihuatl were created