toltecatl

Updated: June 2, 2025

In their architecture the Aztecs did little more than copy the works left by their predecessors; and, to this day, the Mexican Indians call a builder a toltecatl or Toltec. If we consider this circumstantial account to be anything but a mere tissue of fables, the question naturally arises what became of the remains of the Toltecs when they left the high plains of Mexico?

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