[Aztlan] 1491 and Quetazlcoatl redux

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

When Sam first mentioned this book I went to Amazon and Powell's  
books to order it and they did not have it but I found it at Abe's  
Books and ordered it there. They may have more copies if any of you  
want a copy.

Mike Ruggeri



On Apr 1, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Sam Edgerton wrote:

> Listeros: The most respected proponent of the C as Q legend was the  
> late
> H.B.Nicholson, I am trying to locate a copy of his
> "The Return of Quetzalcoatl: Did it Play a Role in the Conquest of  
> Mexico?"
> (Labrynthos, 2001) from which to re-present some of his arguments.   
> In any
> case, I believe {from personal conversations with Nick that he  
> would have
> seconded many of Dave Hixson's comments about the universal human  
> urge to
> launder history in favor of local politics ("History is not  
> immutable.  It
> is based within a constant dialogue with the present"), and as Dan  
> Deneen
> reminded, "these [C as Q] theories may have crept up during
> various stages of the conquest (or even post-conquest)."
> I have recently read a remarkable book relevant to this thread:  
> "Kingship"
> by Francis Oakley (Blackwell, 2006) which, even though it  
> concentrates on
> the history of "cosmic kingship" in the West from ancient classic  
> times
> through the Christian era, reveals how closely the concept was  
> thoroughly
> associated with divinity in whatever form everywhere in the pre-modern
> world including pre-conquest Mesoamerica. He includes a brief  
> chapter on
> the latter and even has as the cover illustration for the whole  
> book, the
> famous bust of Janaab Pakal I as Young Maize God (as photographed  
> by Jorge
> Perez de Lara!).
> Sam Edgerton
>