Adolfo Suárez

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El autor examina las descripciones del emblema fundacional de Tenochtitlan, antecedente del Escudo Nacional, que se encuentran explícitas en las fuentes prehispánicas y en documentación indígena e hispana producida en el periodo colonial. Se indaga cuándo, por qué y en qué circunstancias pudo haberse creado ese símbolo. Se rastrea, asimismo, el itinerario que el emblema del águila y la serpiente siguió durante la Colonia hasta su instauración definitiva como símbolo del actual Estado nacional.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Para los mexicas la causa de muerte era un marcador importante para definir el siguiente destino de las entidades anímicas. Ellos veían en este fenómeno un paso transitorio dentro de un ciclo que tenía que ver con un sistema universal. Desde la creación del hombre, cuya parte esencial se tomó del Mictlan o inframundo, hasta alguna de las moradas para los muertos como puede ser el Tlalocan o paraíso terrenal, esta mitología conforma un circuito que responde a la observación de los ciclos vitales como la agricultura y los astros. Luego de un largo proceso de sincretismo tras la...