The Toltecs, until the fall of Tula (The Civilization of the American Indian series)

by Nigel Davies

Book Overview

Uses archaeological records and documentary sources to chronicle the history of the Mesoamerican culture from the fall of Teotihuacan to the rise and collapse of Tula. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806113944
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Tollan: 1. The word Tollan means a place rushes 2. The city Tollan was endowed with especially useful resources. 3 Tollan was a place of fertility and abundance 4. Large number of people like rush dwelt as a multitude of people congregated together. 5. Tollan seems to be simile of an heavenly city, a new Jerusalem. 6. Zapotec means west 7. Toltecatl is a dweller in Tollan, artisian, skilled worker, or artist 8. The spiritual inheritors of the Tollan culture are the Aztecs. 9. Tollan was the place of the ancient temple. Cholula: 1. Olmec people 2. place where the white tales divide 3. place of the great pyramid. 4. Olmec migrated across the ocean and arrived on the West Tulan: The annals of the Cakehiquels state their forebears arrived from the West at Tulan and came from across the sea. Chichen: 1. History states Itza came to Chichen in four divisons 2. Hltunzuiva is a place in Chonlalpa, the river delta near Tabasco where the Toltec and Putnun cultures meet 3. Uucil Abnal is another name for Chichen and where Quetzalcoatl arrived. Toltecs: 1. portrayed as erudite as well as artistic 2. they were genius of the art of writing and the science of medicine. They may have spoken Nahuatl. 3. Tollan denotes a place of peace and bliss. The Toletecs dominated central America in Architecture and ruins. 4. Tula, Hidalgo, and Chichen with their ubiquitous and fearsome warriors armed to the teeth remind them of bloody sacrifice. 5. The Olmeca-Xicallancas were named Tenime because they spoke a barbarous tonque. Quetzalcoatl: could be a man, hero, god, or plumed serpent symbol. 1. The feathered serpent does not occur among the original Olmecs 2. Man and animal symbols are frequent in MesoAmerica, India, and Egypt. 3. The Jaguar represents fertility and the serpent comes out of the water. 4. the Plumed serpent appears in Tlatilco 5. Combination with earth to sprout. 6. God of wind and God associated with water. 7. Tlaloc man-serpent-tiger inseparable nature of earth water or rain. 8. Associated with the planet Venus. Could the association really be Saturn? Doom and Disaster: 1. Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl was the new risen morning star, the imperial Tenochtitlan, who was destine to rule the earth 2. What happened in Tollan Xicocotitlan, a city that fell from grace? A struggle emerge between the nonoalcas and the Tolteca-Chichimecas and another quarrel commence between the Topltzin and Huemac. The Tolteca-Chichimecas were a militaristic people. The Nonoalca were expelled from Cholula.

Best Ever Well Researched Book on the Toltecs of Mexico!

This is simply the best ever book on the Toltecs ever! Nigel Davies sorts out what is fact and what is fiction about a peoples about which much pure legend abounds! He sets up an accurate chronology of events in Toltec history, and acertains the extent of the Toltec empire at its zenith. Nigel Davies actually studied at the School of National Anthropology in Mexico City, although he recieved his doctorate from Eaton in London. He has gone on to live in Mexico City since 1962 and has continued his studies about these ancient peoples of Mexico. He wrote several books about these peoples both in English and Spanish of which this is the best. Due to his education in England there is no problem of bad translation; this is the original language it was written in. The 1st Edition I own has a wonderful glossy photo section over 30 pages long!