The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization consideredShort, John T. (John Thomas)
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The North Americans of Antiquity: Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered
Short, John T. (John Thomas)
Indians -- Origin; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Antiquities
the two distinct personages in Mexican history, known by the name of
Quetzalcoatl. Only Sahagun of all the early writers has seemed to have
any clear conception of their individual and independent attributes.
The demi-god, and the Toltec king, and the achievements of each, have
been made to change places so often by Spanish writers, that the result
has, with each new treatment of the subject, been confusion worse
confounded. Sahagun’s account of the arrival of the Nahuas in ships,
from the direction of Florida, their landing in Pánuco, their journey
toward Guatemala, their residence in Tamoanchan (probably somewhere
in the Chiapan region) and their subsequent migration northward to
Teotihuacan with its well-known pyramids, and finally their removal
to Tollan, north of the City of Mexico, by the way of Tolancingo,
is a straightforward account which finds support in the best of
evidence, both of a material and linguistic character. Sr. Orozco y
Berra has clearly shown by linguistic testimony that the Nahua nations
entered the country somewhere between the nineteenth and twenty-first
degrees of north latitude, on the Gulf coast, migrated southward to
a point seventeen and one-half degrees north latitude, almost to the
Chiapan region, and then retracing their steps northward, almost to a
point opposite Vera Cruz, they crossed Mexico to the Pacific coast,
along which they extended their language northward nearly to the
twenty-seventh degree north latitude.[387] Sahagun says nothing of Hue
hue Tlapalan in his account of the migration from Tamoanchan to Tollan
or from Chiapas to Anahuac, for his account refers to the Olmecs, the
first Nahuas to reach Mexico.
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