[Aztlan] IN FURTHER RESPONSE TO RICHARD DIEHL-ACATZINGO VIEJO

[michael ruggeri]

Richard and fellow listeros,

In further response to Richard Diehl's query, the site of Acatzingo  
Viejo may have been a place where Nahua people venerated the origin  
story as 7 caves were found there with ritual objects within them.  
This article from Science News Online mentions that site;

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020518/bob9.asp

Manuel Aguilar et al wrote an article for a book called "In the Maw  
of the Earth Monster" about the Acatzingo Viejo site. Here is the URL  
to that article;

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/maguila2/Publications/Acatzingo% 
20Caves.pdf

If that page does not open for you then you can go to Manuel  
Aguilar's web page and pick up the article there;

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/maguila2/

So yes indeed, the Acatzingo Viejo site may very well be the Aztec  
equivalent of the cave of Romulus and Remus in Rome.

Mike Ruggeri