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Updated: May 22, 2025
Of us, the greatest tribe were the Aztecs, who settled on one side of the great lake and built a city there, called Tenochtitlan, or sometimes Mexico, from the great war god Mexitli. "Another great tribe were the Tezcucans, to which we belong; and our capital is Tezcuco, on the eastern side of the same lake.
"Assuredly," he said, "although some are thought more highly of in one kingdom, some in another. Mexitli or as he is generally called, Huitzilopotchli is of course the greatest everywhere; but he is worshiped most of all by the Aztecs. Quetzalcoatl is also greatly worshiped." As he spoke, the merchant glanced furtively up at Roger.
The supreme idol was represented encircled and guarded by sculptured serpents, before which were offered human sacrifices. "On a blue throne, with four huge silver snakes, As if the keepers of the sanctuary, Circled, with stretching necks and fangs display'd, Mexitli sate: another graven snake Belted with scales of gold his monster bulk."
The city derives its name from the Aztec war-god Mexitli, and is a large and handsome metropolis, containing considerably over three hundred thousand inhabitants, who embrace a large diversity of nationalities.
Far away towards the Pacific Ocean there stood, in a beautiful and most fertile valley, the capital of a great and powerful empire, called by its inhabitants 'Tenochtitlan, but known to the Europeans only by its other name of 'Mexico, derived from 'Mexitli, the war-god of the Aztecs.
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