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To: dsc
"Do you have a source for that?"

I would recommend you begin with Sahagún's General History of the Things of New Spain or Florentine Codex. Shortly after the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún compiled a 12-volume ethnography, "General History of the Things of New Spain or Florentine Codex". It is one of the world’s most valuable archaeological documents, providing a stunning view into the Aztecs’ polytheistic religion. It is clear from a reading that Sahagun fully understood the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca's similarity to Satan.

Other valuable sources of information include:

Arens, W The Man-Eating Myth. New York Oxford University Press (1979)

Berdan, Francis F. (2005) The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society. Thomson and Wadsworth

Carrasco, David. Lindsay Jones, Scott Sessions (2000)Mesoamerica’s Classic heritage, From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs University Press of Colorado

Codex Dresden(sixteenth-Century) Codex Dresden

Codex Ixtlilxochtli( sixteeth_century)Codex Ixtlilxochtli

Codex Magliabecchiano(1970) Codex Magliabecchiano,

commentary by Ferdinand Anders. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt (originally composed: mid-sixteenth century).

Codex Mendoza (1983) Codex Mendoza, James Cooper Clark, ed., 3 vols. London Waterlow (originally composed: ca. 1541).

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal 1956. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico. New York: Noonday

Harner M (1977) The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice. American Ethnologist. 4:117-135

Lopez Lujan, Leonardo (2000) The Offerings of the Templo Mayor. University Press of Colorado

Leon-Portilla, Miguel. 1963. Aztec Thought and Culture. University of Oklahoma Press

Reeves, Peggy. (1986) Divine Hunger. Cambridge University Press

Sagon, Eli (1974) Cannibalism; Human Aggression and cultural Form. Harper & Row

55 posted on 01/25/2008 8:53:28 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

“It is clear from a reading that Sahagun fully understood the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca’s similarity to Satan.”

Tezcatlipoca *was* Satan, but that’s not the point.

I was asking for a source for your assertion that the Spaniards didn’t regard the Indios as human.


56 posted on 01/25/2008 11:36:37 PM PST by dsc
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