Journey to the Promised Land
For over 200 years the Mexica people wandered the Central American highlands in search of a place to call home. It was said that when they had reached the proper location Huitzilopochtli would appear to them in the form of an eagle eating a serpent atop a cactus. As skilled hunters they foraged their way across the lands on a journey that stemmed from the mythical city of Aztlan. Though they had yet to establish a capitol, their religious ideology had already developed into a complex system of blood sacrifice and ritual festivals. Along their journey they celebrated the "New fire" ceremony and constructed sacrificial temples to their patron deity Huitzilopochtli. They would even occasionally constructed ball courts for the already popular Meso-American game. After a failed attempt to claim a King from the Calhua ruler, they fled to the marshlands near lake Texcoco. Their they saw the sign they had been waiting for. On a swampy island they began to construct the capitol city of what would become the greatest Empire in all of Meso-America. At the center of Tenochtitlan they constructed the Templo Mayor to honor their most reveared gods Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc...
(Carrasco & Moctezuma 1992) (Carrasco & Moctezuma 1992) (Carrasco & Moctezuma 1992)
