[Aztlan] Sahagun book 12 geography

[Javier Pulido Biosca]

Dear folks:

Cuetaxtla. The name is Cotaxtla, is very near to Veracruz and today is an 
experimental field of the mexican SARH (Agriculture and Hidraulic 
resources). Very far from the mountain, but you have to take present in your 
minds that ancient mexicans ran the route from Veracruz to Mexico, and they 
pass the messenges from one runner to other, so they took 8 hours to send a 
message or a fish and sea food from Veracruz to Mexico City.

About Xicalanco or Jicalango, you can be sure that is not Cotaxtla, but 
could be any site that produces xicalli, jicaras, in Spanish, a tropical 
fruit very common.

Cheers
Javier

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. M. Urquidi" <deamayaspin at yahoo.com>
To: "Aztlan" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: RE: [Aztlan] Sahagun book 12 geography


> 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
>
>
>
> D. M. Urquidi
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