[Aztlan] Sahagun book 12 geography

[D. M. Urquidi]

Folks:
   
  The problem you are having, from the first post about Sahagun Chapter XII, is "why did the emissaries not cross the mountain?"

  Rowing around the mountain on the gulf apparently was a lot faster, even rowing as fast as they seem to have been doing, than going up a mountain just to go down on the other side.
   
  Ho9w many ever climbed a mountain? It is a lot easier to go down than to go up, by foot. One cannot RUN UP a mountain, but one can slide down.  I did the second on a 14,000 ft., but huffed the whole distance up (except during the midnight segment. It was easier going up  then for some dumb reason.)
   
  The Cuextaxteca appears to have been much closer to Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) OR Montezuma was close by waiting for the emissaries to return, before he went back to Tenoshtitland.  A very wise thing to do was to keep the mountain between him and the conquistadores UNTIL he found out what they were actually up to. He may have come half way expecting to meet a person similar to Columbus, who touched the Carribbean, 26 years previous.  The water route must have been a low water route so that Cortes's ships could not make it, and not knowing the mountain. . . well, take it from there.
  You just have to fill in the rest of the facts before you try to find the city. . . .cities tend to disappear with wars. It may not have survived the first wave of war. Cortes would not have saved anyone or any town.
   
  Dea



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