1. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press, Boston, 1992. From pages 4-6. The entire list of omens in greater description is here.
2. Cortes, Hernando. Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor. W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1991. This account is on page 65. A large part of this letter is devoted to the description of the city and its districts.
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1. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press, Boston, 1992. From page 64. Leon-Portilla presents the indigenous view of the conquest. This is a quote of the speech that was given by Moctezuma. It was recalled and passed on by Aztec sources.
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1. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press, Boston, 1992. From page 65.This quote was apparently the response of Cortes to the previous speech by Moctezuma. He speaks first to the translator, and then to Moctezuma.
1. Carrasco David, and Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1992. This quote, appearing on pages 4 and 5, is taken from Miguel Leon-Portilla's book Les Antiguos Mexicanos (Mexico: Fondo Cultural Economica, 1976). One can begin to see that as well as being a story of conquest and dominion, there is probably historical reason to believe that the Aztecs' wanderings had also to do with their own subjection and battles with other groups until they come to found their own empire at Tenochtitlan.
1. Thomas, Hugh. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1993. This is from page 6.
2. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London, 1992. Leon-Portilla explains on page 9 in the Introduction how the pictographic books could be used as a basis for a living, changing oral tradition.
3. Ibid. From page 73.
4. Ibid. The poem is on page 83. Leon-Portilla is referencing this poem from Romances de los senores, fol. 35 r. This is a manuscript, in Nahuatl, which resides in the library at the University of Texas at Austin.
1. Carrasco David, and Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1992. This information about the temple alignment was from the chapter entitled " Moctezuma's Sky: Aztec Astronomy and Ritual", written by Anthony F. Aveni, pages 150-151.
2. Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1988. A diagram of this and an explanation of the calendars is found on page 63.
3. Carrasco David, and Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1992. This quote is from page 151, in the chapter mentioned above.
4. Ibid. This story about the New Fire Ceremony is in the chapter entitled "Knowing the Worlds of Moctezuma", written by David Carrasco. Page 135.
1. Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1988. This entire book is recommended for anyone who is interested in the excavation of the Great Temple.
1. Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de. Florentine Codex. Translated by Anderson, J.O.,and Dibble, Charles E. The School of American Research, and the University of Utah, Santa Fe, 1978. Sahagun was one of the recorders of Aztec history and myth. (Some priests believed that learning the religion and practice of the Aztecs would make the task of conversion to Christianity easier for them). The Codex consists of twelve volumes.
1. Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo. The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1988. p 66.
2. Ibid. From the Glossary on p. 177.
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