A note on the position and extent of the great temple enclosure of Tenochtitlan,: and the position, structure and orientation of the Teocolli of Huitzilopochtli.Maudslay, Alfred Percival
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A note on the position and extent of the great temple enclosure of Tenochtitlan,: and the position, structure and orientation of the Teocolli of Huitzilopochtli.
Maudslay, Alfred Percival
Huitzilopochtli (Aztec deity); Indian architecture -- Mexico; Mexico City (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Sahagun specifies 78 edifices in connection with the great Temple,
among these are “No. 72, named Itepeioc, a house where the Chieftains
make the image of Vitzilopuchtli out of dough [masa],” and “No. 73,
the building named Vitznoacealpulli, which is the house where they
make the image of the other God, the companion of Vitzilopuchtli,
named Tlacavepancuexcozin.” It thus appears that the two “barrios” or
districts mentioned were sections of the Temple enclosure.
Footnote 15:
Cortés evidently uses the term Mosque (Mesquita) for the whole group
of Temples within the Enclosure.
Footnote 16:
This is evidently an exaggeration, the houses of the Marques del Valle
and the Mexican royal houses were not included in the area of the
Temple Enclosure.
Footnote 17:
The apetlac?
Footnote 18:
The apetlac?
Footnote 19:
Tianguiz is the Mexican word for Market.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 20, changed “five hundred Italians” to “five hundred Indians”.
2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
spelling.
3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
4. Re-indexed footnotes using numbers and collected together at the end
of the last chapter.
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