[Aztlan] Aztlan

[Jorge Pérez de Lara]

Daniel,

If I may, I would like to volunteer (partial) answers for your last two 
questions:

I don't think any academic research team (university-affiliated or 
otherwise) is "undertaking the task of locating Aztlan" mainly because 
Aztlan isn't believed to have ever existed in a fully physical sense. 
That is, Aztlan is a point of departure, a place of origin for the 
peoples who see themselves as "coming from Aztlan" (i.e, Aztecs). In 
that sense, while migrating peoples certainly set out from actual 
places, by the time their migration stories evolve, a lot of actual 
places (including the place of origin) have been unseparably mixed with 
what we like calling "mythology." Aztlan may have even had cosmological 
connections, much in the manner of other peoples who claim their 
ancestors "came from the stars," "from under the the Earth, sea" etc.

As an answer to your last question, because of the half-mythological 
identity of Aztlan, I don't think it can really disappear, because it 
never fully existed in the physical plane. As for its "disappearing 
like the Maya," I think it is important to differentiate between 
cultural collapse (which is what went on with the Late Classic Maya) 
and disappearance. In that sense, the so-called Maya collapse probably 
entailed  a severe population drop as a result of reasons still to be 
fully understood, but the Maya never disappeared in the way popular 
media would have it. They, in fact, have never stopped to inhabit their 
ancestral lands.

My two cacao beans.

Jorge


On Oct 18, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Webmaster wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have found these two maps online:
>
> Tanner's 1822 map &
> 1847 Disturnell Map
>
> Both make reference to the home of the Aztecs.
>
> Does anyone have any additional information on these maps?
> Does anyone want to comment on them?
> Are there / is there ANYONE looking for the origin of the Mexicas?
> Are all these maps in private collections?
> Are there any in universities?
> Are there any Universities currently undertaking the task of locating 
> Aztlan?
>
> Did Aztlan mysteriously disappear like the Maya?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> Daniel
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