and Purépecha Huitzimengari and Calzontzin, among many others, sought by means of alliances and weapons to recover the Toltec Cem Anahuac hegemony, but no one achieved it and their victories were only temporary and for reduced geographical spaces in relation to the whole Anahuac.
The Mexicas arrived in the Valley of Mexico as nomad hunter-gatherers. They didn't speak the millenarian Nahuatl language, did not plant corn, or wove cotton. Their codices of those times described them as "faceless people". Their history suffered many changes.
They were first recorded by ancient people as vagabonds and uncivilized peoples. Subsequently, while Tlacaelel was the Tenochtitlan Cihuacoátl, ordered the destruction of the ancient Cem Anahuac history and created a new version, where the Aztecs occupied a central place, appropriating the Anahuac origin myths. As the famous pilgrimage that started at Chicomoztoc,[1] place of "the seven caves" in search of a promised land, guided by a messiah born of a Virgin Mother. Later the conquistadors and missionaries in the 16th century portrayed the Aztecs as cannibals and idolaters to justify their crimes "against humanity". Towards the 18th century the creoles mythically portrayed them as "the Romans" of these ancient lands, in search of an original glorious identity. And finally, for the neo-colonial official history, the Mexicas become Aztecs and are the "most important culture" representing the Cem Anahuac ancient history.
The Fifth Sun prophecy
Existed separately an ancient story that before this humanity, there had been four failed attempts to find
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- ↑ Chicomoztoc is the name of the mythical place of origin for Aztecs, Mexicas, Tepanecs, Acolhuas and other Nahuatl (or Nahua) speaking peoples from Mesoamerica, in the central region during the Postclassical period. Different versions locate this this mythical place in different places, but its location is not known. This is the location where the Aztecs, purportedly started their migration from the north to the Mexico central plateau, and where older people and children were left behind. According to Francisco Javier Clavijero, (1780), the Aztecs remained at this place for nine years during their voyage to Anahuac.
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