micaotli

Updated: May 19, 2025

Seen from the proper point of view the resemblance is complete. From the south side of the Temple of the Moon runs an avenue of burial-mounds, the Micaotli, "the path of the dead."

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

There is, perhaps, no better way of expressing this opinion than to say that what we saw of Mexico tended generally to confirm Prescott's History of the Conquest, and but seldom to make his statements appear to us improbable. There are other mounds near the pyramids, besides the Micaotli.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern