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The actual origins of the Aztecs is the lulzy story
| cock of zohran mamdani | 09/03/25 |
| cock of zohran mamdani | 09/03/25 |
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Date: September 3rd, 2025 2:54 PM Author: cock of zohran mamdani They began as nomads from no-one-knows-where. When they appeared in Central Mexico they were poor, filthy and uncultured, and no one recognized them. Consequently no one would interact with them, let alone let them live in their cities. Instead they pointed to a giant lake and said "you can live there."
The Aztecs took this literally and went about dredging up soil from the lake bed until they had enough earf to build a city. Then they built a yuge as city INSIDE the lake, then they conquered and subjugated and enslaved and murdered all the other tribes who had looked down on them in the past. |
Date: September 3rd, 2025 2:57 PM Author: cock of zohran mamdani In the Valley of Mexico (c. 1250 AD), there existed numerous city-states, including Chalco, Xochimilco, Tlacopan, Colhuacan, and Azcapotzalco. The most powerful were Culhuacan on the south shore of Lake Texcoco and Azcapotzalco on the west shore.
As a result, when the Mexica arrived in the Valley of Mexico as a semi-nomadic tribe, they found most of the area already occupied. In roughly 1248,[2] they first settled on Chapultepec, a hill on the west shore of Lake Texcoco, the site of numerous springs.
In time, the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco ousted the Mexica from Chapultepec, and the ruler of Culhuacan, Coxcoxtli, gave the Mexica permission to settle in the empty barrens of Tizaapan in 1299. There they married and assimilated into Culhuacan culture. [3]
In 1323, they asked the new ruler of Culhuacan, Achicometl, for his daughter, in order to make her the goddess Yaocihuatl. Unknown to the king, the Mexica actually planned to sacrifice her. The Mexica believed that by doing this the princess would join the gods as a deity. As the story goes, during a festival dinner, a priest came out wearing her flayed skin as part of the ritual. Upon seeing this, the king and the people of Culhuacan were horrified and expelled the Mexica.[citation needed]
Forced to flee, in 1325 they went to a small island on the west side of Lake Texcoco where they began to build their city Tenochtitlan, eventually creating a large artificial island. It is said that the Aztec god, Huitzilopochtli, instructed the Aztecs to found their city at the location where they saw an eagle, on a cactus, with a snake in its talons (which is on the current Mexican flag). The Aztecs, apparently, saw this vision on the small island where Tenochtitlan was founded |