#Ferdinandi Cortesii

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The Water Cycle – Alchemy In America?

─ VERSION OF THE MARGINAL NOTES TO THE THIRD HYMN; to Tlaloc

── “Ahvia mexico teutlaneviloc”. means: “In Mexico one borrows from the god.”

── “Amapanitl an nauhcampa ye moquetzquetl” means: “Paper flags in the four directions have stood up.”

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Representations of the city of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztecs.

Up right : second folio of the Codex Mendoza depicting the foundation of Tenochtitlan. Painted european paper, 1541-1542. Oxford University.

Up left : Tenochtitlan map given as a gift to Cortes around 1519-1521. Publicated in “Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii de nova maris Oceani Hispania narratio“, Cortes’ second letter to the emperor Carlos V in 1524. Newberry library, Chicago.

Bottom : “La Grande Tenochtitlan”, fresco by Diego Rivera, 1945. Palacio National, Mexico.