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    Chicōmōztōc ([t͡ʃikoːˈmoːs̻toːk]) is the name for the mythical origin place of the Aztec Mexicas, Tepanecs, Acolhuas, and other Nahuatl-speaking peoples...
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    Retrieved June 3, 2023. inchan yn ompa huehue mexico aztlan quinehuayan chicomoztoc yn axcan quitocayotia yancuic mexico "Yancuic Mexico". Online Nahuatl...
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    how the Mexica left "their home there in Old Mexico Aztlan Quinehuayan Chicomoztoc, which today they call New Mexico (yancuic mexico)." Nuevo México was...
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    Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call ‘White Cloud Serpent’, since such is the shape of...
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  • Mimixcoa were born, their mother Iztac-Chalchiuhtlicue went into a cave (Chicomoztoc or Tlalocan) and gave birth to five other Mimixcoa called Cuauhtlicoauh...
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    discovered caves carved to simulate the seven chambered cave, known as Chicomoztoc, from the ritual creation narrative. According to the Manuscript of 1558...
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    southward, hence their name "Azteca." Other accounts cite their origin in Chicomoztoc, "the place of the seven caves", or at Tamoanchan (the legendary origin...
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    naturally formed lava tube and interpreted as possibly the place of Chicomoztoc, the place of human origin according to Nahua legends. More recent excavations...
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    matter of debate. Nahuatl histories relate that seven tribes lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the Place of the Seven Caves". Each cave represented a different...
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    Chicomoztoc as depicted in the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca....
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    constituted one of the seven tribes that started the migration from Chicomoztoc (in nahuatl, "The Seven Caves"), a place which has no certain location...
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    brother, and it was destined to descend from heaven to Earth. It falls in Chicomoztoc (The Place of the Seven Caves) primary array of peoples, fragmenting...
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    after founding the Toltec empire, and were descendants of the people of Chicomoztoc. These legends were not transcribed until after the Spanish conquest...
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    into action, and that it fell in a certain part of the earth, called Chicomoztoc, which means 'Seven Caves', and that then one thousand and six hundred...
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    Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call ‘White Cloud Serpent’, since such is the shape of...
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  • paradisiac dwelling place of the ancestors; (c) the Cave of Emergence (Aztec Chicomoztoc); (d) the place of celestial ascent of ancestors and (solar) sky gods;...
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    Tiānquiztli Tzitzimitl Xiuhtotontli Places Anahuac Aztlán Cemanahuac Chicomoztoc Huēyi Teōcalli Mictlān (The Underworld) Tamoanchan Teotihuacan Thirteen...
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    behind. Francisco Javier Clavijero, in 1780, associated this site with Chicomoztoc, where the Aztecs remained for nine years during their voyage to Anahuac...
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    ritual (Boone, 2000) and cultural journey from the mythical cave of Chicomoztoc to the town of Cuauhtinchan in the heart of today's Valley of Puebla...
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    book of dreams." Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete Mythical place Aztlan Chicomoztoc Mesoamerican creation accounts Mesoamerican mythologies and creation...
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    legendary land of origins called 'The Seven Caves and Seven Canyons' (Nahua Chicomoztoc), and on their disappearance, left a sacred bundle. During the Classic...
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  • have pointed to a place in the United States as the likely location of Chicomoztoc, the ancestral land from which—according to ancient documents and accounts...
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    chronicles spanning the years 1195 to 1549, beginning with the migration from Chicomoztoc—the mythical place of origin of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples—and continuing...
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    come from the same group of pictographic Aztec documents, now lost. Chicomoztoc, the seven caves of origin at Aztlan Tollan The battle at Chapultepec...
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    legendary land of origins called "The Seven Caves and Seven Canyons" (Nahua Chicomoztoc), and on their disappearance, left a sacred bundle. In Chiapas, at the...
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    been subsequently translated to French, and English. Plates 1 and 2. Chicomoztoc and Tollan Plates 3 and 4. The founding of Tenochtitlan and Battle at...
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    Guachimontones, Jalisco. Una propuesta para el occidente de México". Revista Chicomoztoc. 2 Núm. 3 (2020): 35–62. doi:10.48705/chztk.v2i3.748. Retrieved 2 June...
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  • plaza and is modeled on the mythical seven-chamber cave of emergence, Chicomoztoc. This is also seen at Teotihuacan, though the details differ somewhat...
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