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Octavio Paz, joven

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Octavio Paz, joven

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  1. "Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. In the Valley of Mexico man feels himself suspended between heaven and earth, and he oscillates between contrary powers and forces, and petrified eyes and devouring mouths. Reality -- that is, the world that surrounds us -- exists by itself here, has a life of its own, and was not invented by man as it was in the United States."

  2. Octavio Paz, joven

  3. Octavio Paz, viejo

  4. The Return of Quetzalcoátl and the Fall of Man Click on icon for the Myth of Quetzalcoátl

  5. Click on icon for text of lecture

  6. Bandera de Mexico con águila y serpiente

  7. Detalle de águila y serpiente

  8. Templo Mayor El Museo Nacional de Antropología cuenta con esta reconstrucción del Templo Mayor, el recinto sagrado de la capital mexica, donde se puede apreciar la magnitud del conjunto ceremonial. Back to previous page

  9. Serpientes: Templo Mayor, México, D.F.

  10. Templo Mayor: Tenochtitlán (Mexico City)

  11. Click on head for Aztec Cosmogony

  12. Click on Aztec Sunstone for Aztec Links

  13. Coatlicue: The Lady of the Skirt of Snakes

  14. The Náhuatl Language of the Aztecs The Aztecs spoke a language called Náhuatl (pronounced NAH waht l). It belongs to a large group of Indian languages which also include the languages spoken by the Comanche, Pima, Shoshone and other tribes of western North America. The Aztec used pictographs to communicate through writing. Some of the pictures symbolized ideas and other represented the sounds of the syllables.

  15. Haced Click en la imagen

  16. Historia de La Conquista J.C. Orozco, Hospicio Cabañas

  17. El Hombre de Hierro; J.C. Orozco, Hospicio Cabañas

  18. Cortés y La Malinche J.C. Orozco, Hospicio Cabañas

  19. Xochicalco, Centro Ceremonial, Morelos, México

  20. Cancha de Pelota, Xochicalco

  21. Xochicalco, Centro Ceremonial, Morelos, México

  22. Tepozlán (Morelos, México)

  23. Teotihuacán: Avenue of the Dead and Pyramid of the Moon

  24. Teotihuacán: Pyramid of the Moon

  25. Teotihuacán: Pyramid of the Sun

  26. Teotihuacán: Temple of Quetzalcoátl

  27. Cabeza de Quetzalcoátl, Templo Teotihuacán

  28. Quetzalcoátl = Feathered Serpent Quetzal = Green Parrot (The Good in Man) Coátl = Serpent (The Evil in Man)

  29. Quetzalcoátl

  30. José Clemente Orozco: The Prophecy Baker Library, Dartmouth College

  31. José Clemente Orozco: The Departure of Quetzalcoátl Baker Library, Dartmouth College

  32. José Clemente Orozco: Aztec Warriors Baker Library, Dartmouth College

  33. Aztec Human Sacrifice

  34. Skull rack altar (tzompantli) of Templo Mayor, Mexico City

  35. Since the Toltecs' era, the chac-mool served as a vessel from man to the gods. It was believed to deliver the sacrificial heart to the gods in the heavens. While the Aztecs used such large bowls like the aforementioned eagle and jaguar bowls, they also employed the more traditional chac-mool for the same purpose. One of the oldest constructions of the Great Temple shows a very early chac-mool in the Aztec empire.

  36. José Clemente Orozco: Ancient Human Sacrifice Baker Library, Dartmouth College

  37. José Clemente Orozco: Modern Human Sacrifice Baker Library, Dartmouth College

  38. Hombre en Llamas (Man Aflame) Hospicio Cabañas José Clemente Orozco

  39. José Guadalupe Posada

  40. "History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way,it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality--if only for a moment -- by means of creation."

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