Chapter 604 Aztecs and Nahuas

The Athenian Empire's New World expeditionary force had only 10,000 people.

This force was not enough to control the huge area of ​​42 million square kilometers of the New World, let alone the 520,000 square kilometers of Central America.

However, after the Mayan population of one million became the subjects of the Athenian Empire, the Athenian Empire could at least recruit 50,000 soldiers from the 100,000 young and strong Mayans as the cornerstone of the Athenian Empire's expansion in the New World.

1596 BC.

September.

Roy led 30,000 Mayan soldiers equipped with iron weapons to attack the Olmecs in Mexico.

The Olmecs, who worshipped Tezcatlipoca, the god of thunder, were the true natives of the New World and the original overlords of Central America.

After the Mayans who worshipped the feathered serpent came to the New World, they relied on the advanced civilization and technology of the Neolithic Age to strike down the Olmecs in the Paleolithic Age and took away the throne of the overlord of Central America.

But the Olmecs did not accept defeat, and Tezcatlipoca, the god of thunder, did not accept the fact that he lost to Quetzalcoatl.

After learning the technology of the Neolithic Age from the Mayans, the Olmecs began to actively counterattack the Mayans.

Because both sides were in the Neolithic Age, the Mayans no longer had the advantage of advanced weapons, so the war between the Mayans and the Olmecs became a win-lose war.

This is exactly the real prototype of the Aztec myth that Quetzalcoatl defeated Tezcatlipoca three times and was overthrown by Tezcatlipoca three times.

In the end, the Aztecs went south from the north and conquered the Olmecs, who were both defeated by the Mayans, ending the war between the Mayans and the Olmecs that lasted for thousands of years.

Mexico.

After the Mayan soldiers of the Athenian Empire invaded the Olmec territory, the result was self-evident.

The Olmec soldiers using stone spears and wooden spears were vulnerable to the Mayan soldiers using iron weapons.

Like a torrent flooding a valley, the Mayan soldiers turned the Olmec territory into the territory of the Athenian Empire.

Lake Tlacopan.

Because of the precious water resources, this place has become an area where a large number of Olmec tribes live.

In order to stop the invasion of the Mayans, the Olmecs formed a coalition on the shores of Lake Tlacopan.

Unfortunately, the Olmecs' numerical advantage could not resist the dimensionality reduction attack.

The Battle of Tlacopan began.

The Olmec coalition, which had a numerical advantage, was still vulnerable in front of the Mayan soldiers.

While humans were fighting each other, Tezcatlipoca, the god of thunder worshipped by the Olmecs, also started a battle of gods with Persephone.

Tezcatlipoca's strength was not even as good as that of Quetzalcoatl.

Facing Persephone, who was more powerful than Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca was killed by Persephone's scythe in the first round.

The Mayan army of the Athenian Empire pushed forward all the way and soon incorporated all the Olmec territories into the territory of the Athenian Empire.

After conquering the Olmecs, Loy led the Mayan army north to the Lake Texcoco area.

Lake Texcoco means Moon Lake.

The Nahua people living east of Lake Texcoco were the people who worshipped the moon goddess Coyoshak.

The Aztecs, who worshipped the god of war Huitzilopochtli, lived north of Lake Texcoco.

In the history of another world, the capital of the Aztec Empire and the capital of Mexico were built on two islands in Lake Texcoco.

The Aztecs were not native to the Valley of Mexico.

Due to their warlike nature, they constantly harassed neighboring tribes, making their neighbors around them angry.

So they united to launch a crusade.

The result of the war was that the Aztecs were defeated, most of them were captured, and a small number of them fled to the island.

The captured Aztecs were taken to Culhuacan, a dynasty composed of descendants of the Toltecs, and lived under the supervision of Coxcox, the chief of Culhuacan.

Later, due to their meritorious service in a battle in Culhuacan, their reputation soared.

Around 1325 AD, these Aztecs moved to a small island in Lake Texcoco and joined those who had fled there before.

Later, this small island developed into the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire and Mexico.

In the mythology of the Aztecs, they described themselves as victims.

During the migration of the Aztecs to the south, they were not welcomed by the people along the way.

Sometimes they could only work for the locals as cheap labor, serfs or slaves.

After crossing a long area and going through several tribal conflicts, the Nahua people who worshipped the moon goddess finally agreed to take them in.

However, they only gave the Aztecs a very poor piece of land, which was covered with volcanic rocks and deadly snakes and scorpions everywhere.

Instead, the Aztecs hunted all the snakes and scorpions on the ground and lived tenaciously there.

The natives finally saw their bravery and agreed to take them in as mercenaries.

At this time, Huitzilopochtli asked them to stop being manipulated by others and to rise up in resistance.

They finally killed the chief's daughter and held the first "New Fire Ceremony" of the migration - using fire sacrifice to offer the chief's daughter to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and hunting.

The angry chief led his troops to drive the Aztecs out and drove them to an island in the lake.

Just when the Aztecs were about to despair, perhaps because they had finally passed Huitzilopochtli's test, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake under its claws.

The eagle kept screaming while biting the snake under its claws to pieces.

This was Huitzilopochtli's revelation.

The gods instructed them that they should multiply here, conquer all other tribes, and build a powerful empire of their own.

In Huitzilopochtli's myth, his birth was also accompanied by death.

Legend has it that there lived a Nahua tribe in the south of the Eastern Sierra Madre.

The female chief of the tribe was the earth goddess [Quetzalcoatl], who first gave birth to her eldest daughter, the moon goddess Coyoshak, and then vowed to remain chaste.

However, one day, a ball made of feathers suddenly fell from the sky and landed in the arms of Quetzalcoatl, and then disappeared with a bang.

Quetzalcoatl was pregnant with Huitzilopochtli.

When the moon goddess Coyoshak learned that her mother was pregnant, she was very angry and thought that her mother had broken her oath, so she decided to kill her mother.

When Coyoshak was about to take action, Huitzilopochtli jumped out of her mother's belly and landed fully armed and already an adult.

He held Xihecoatl [Sword of the Fire Serpent] and first cut off Coyoshak's limbs and threw her off the top of the mountain.

He then cut off her head and threw it into the sky, which turned into the moon.

The Aztec migration myth is exactly the same as Huitzilopochtli's birth myth.

The Nahua people accepted the Aztecs who came south, which corresponded to Huitzilopochtli becoming the child of Quetzalcoatl.

The Aztecs killed the chief's daughter, which corresponded to Huitzilopochtli killing the daughter of the female chief Quetzalcoatl - the moon goddess Coyoshak.

In other words, the Aztecs killing the chief's daughter was the real prototype of Huitzilopochtli killing the moon goddess Coyoshak.