When the spaniards arrive to get Jerónimo de Aguilar, he immediately join the Spaniards, but when they arrive for Gonzalo Guerrero, he sends a message thanking Cortés, and argues that he already has family and that he shall stay and live with the mayans.
When Cortez arrives in Tabasco, he is given the Malinche, who can speak Nahuatl and Maya, so she becomes a language "bridge". Malinche in mayan language informs Jerónimo de Aguilar and he translates to spanish for Cortés of the situation that exists in the Aztec empire. That the year, 1519, is the Uno Caña Year and that their arrival coincides with the prophecy that every 52 years, they expected the announced Quetzalcoatl return. That he arrived from the East, is white and bearded, that will bring the new Quetzalcoatl era and that will punish all those who transgreded his philosophy and religion. That the Tlatócan (supreme mexica council) and Moctezuma II are waiting for him with genuine concern and great fear.
The prophecy is fulfilled.
Indeed, Moctezuma II and the Tlatócan were aware of spaniards expeditions and shipwrecks in these lands. The end of the mexica Huitzilopochtli usurpation had been announced by Quetzalcoatl through the so-called "disastrous omens". Ten years earlier, a fire spike (Comet) crossed the sky of the great Tenochtitlan; one day without logical explanation the Huitzilopochtli Temple burned until it was completely destroyed; another day in broad daylight, without rain and thunder, Xiuhtecuhtli[1] burnt; one day the lake water that surrounded the city boiled without explanation; on some occasions at night in the streets of Tenochtitlan, on some occasions the heart-rending cry of a woman was heard, at night on the Tenochtitlan streets who was crying for their children who were going to die; a bird found in the Lake, had a mirror in the head, where Moctezuma saw the arrival of the spaniards; deformed men brought before Moctezuma disappeared in his presence. Be it as it may, the Aztec leadership and many ancient peoples of the world, knew
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- ↑ In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtecuhtli ("Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat. He was the lord of volcanoes, the personification of life after death, warmth in cold (fire), light in darkness and food during famine. He was also named Cuezaltzin ("flame") and Ixcozauhqui, and is sometimes considered to be the same as Huehueteotl ("Old God"), although Xiuhtecuhtli is usually shown as a young deity. His wife was Chalchiuhtlicue. Xiuhtecuhtli is a manifestation of Ometecuhtli, the Lord of Duality, and according to the Florentine Codex Xiuhtecuhtli was considered to be mother and father of the Gods, who dwelled in the turquoise enclosure in the center of earth.
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