the prediction arts; in addition it was already said in oral tradition, what would happen. The truth is that a part of the ruling mexica, saw with fear the spaniards arrival, and the end of their philosophical and religious transgression.
The conquest of Mexico was rather a civil war between indigenous peoples, with deep philosophical, religious roots and old wounds between peoples under mexica domination, than a heroic epic of a handful of Spanish guided by a "fearless and brave captain".
Hernán Cortés knew how to take advantage of the structural weaknesses of the indigenous system that had at the time large material power, but great religious and philosophical weakness. The hispanic myth that, due to the courage and weapon superiority, horses, and religion, allowed Cortés victory is the product of the ignorance and mental colonization in which we have lived these last five hundred years. The cost of the Toltec departure, the religious—philosophical—ideological schism initiated by Tlacaelel and that gave glory and power to the mexicas, was paid by Moctezuma Xocoyotzin.
The peoples that did not transgreded the millennial Quetzalcoatl rule and that remained loyal to the millenary Tlaloc—Quetzalcoatl tradition; such as the Maya peoples of the Yucatán peninsula and south of Mexico; the Zapotec and Mixtecs in Oaxaca, the Purépecha in Michoacán, the Tlapanecas in the Guerrero mountains and Tlaxcalans from Tlaxcala. In principle did not accept the spaniards as Quetzalcoatl and remained rebellious, from the mexicas first, and later against the spaniards. It is no coincidence to find in our times, to find in these regions and peoples of Mexico, the strongest cultural resistance, which leads them as a whole to be "The Spiritual Reserve of Mexico" and pulsating heart of the "profound Mexico".
Cortez sought and achieved the Tlaxcala alliance, whom first fought them, but Cortés skillfully convinced them of being the Quetzalcoatl captain, in other words, the king of Spain, and later the very Quetzalcoatl, as expected and feared by the transgressors. Cortés took advantage of the Quetzalcoatl prophecy and their transgression of his
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