[Aztlan] fall of the multepal

[Bertrand Lobjois]

*Hi listeros !

It's been a long that Dick Diehl posted this info but I read my Aztlan's
archives and the summary of this "incredible" theory. It's sure that I have
to read attentively this book but it's doubtfull. The authors take this old
interpretation that Tula, Hidalgo, was the former and incredible kingdom of
Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. But why can't we consider that Tollan
should be Teotihuacan like suggested by Florescano or even a mythical city,
related with myths of creation and first sin, like Graulich or Seler
proposed it ?
But first I'll read the book to make an entire opinion of it.

Saludos desde Monterrey...

Bertrand LOBJOIS
Universidad de Monterrey*

2008/1/27 Diehl, Richard <rdiehl en as.ua.edu>:

> NEWS FLASH! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Palace Coup at Chichén Itzá! King K'ak'upakal and brother depose the
> Multepal Troika that has run city since the 1990 Schele-Freidel Uprising!
>
> Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic
> Mesoamerican World, a new book edited by Jeff Karl Kowalski and Cynthia
> Kristan- Graham (Dumbarton Oaks, 2007) reveals tumultuous changes in the way
> Chichén Itzá, Maya-land's major metropolis at the end of the first
> millennium AD, was governed. Eighteen years ago Linda Schele and David
> Freidel proposed that the city was not ruled by a paramount ruler in
> traditional Maya fashion, but rather by a council of leading individuals.
> However, new data and reinterpretations of existing information reveal that
> K'ak'upakal K'awiil, also known as "Fire is the Shield of K'awiil", perhaps
> assisted by his brother K'awiil Kopol and abetted by his parents Lady K'ayam
> ("Lady Singer" or more loosely, The Emmylou Harris of Yucatan) and
> cho-ko-wa-ju?-a-b'i "Jawbone", defeated their former overlords at Ek Balam
> and established an independent state under King K' sometime in the late 9th
> century. This apparently occurred prio!
>  r to the opening of Chichén to the Toltec-led Mesoamerican Co-Prosperity
> Sphere based at Tula, Hidalgo. King K' does not seem to have established a
> dynasty; at least it is not known who succeeded him. Whoever that may have
> been appears to have fully integrated northern Yucatan into the short-lived
> Tula-based free-trade zone. Was his successor Ce Acatl Topiltzin
> Quetzalcoatl, the pulque-besotted rounder who was expelled from Tula by his
> born-again subjects? Your reporter doubts it but strongly encourages his
> readers to peruse this weighty (in EVERY sense of the word) tome and form
> their own opinions about what really happened at The Mouth of the well of
> the Itzá. Please do not hesitate to let him and the world know if you read
> the evidence differently than he does.
>
> Your humble servant,
> Dick Diehl
>
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