Tenochtitlan 1991, 1992

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"The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear. The date 13 March 1325, was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city."    

 Photo in today's Guardian.


"The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The city was the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Spanish in 1521."

"Traditionally, the name Tenochtitlan was thought to come from Nahuatl tetl [ˈtetɬ] ("rock") and nōchtli [ˈnoːtʃtɬi] ("prickly pear") and is often thought to mean, "Among the prickly pears [growing among] rocks". 

However, one attestation in the late 16th-century manuscript known as "the Bancroft dialogues" suggest the second vowel was short, so that the true etymology remains uncertain"







My First "Gig" was literally playing "here," as pictured below: photo of Forest Bloodgood by Rebecca Bashara in 1993. I originally "busked" here the prior year, 1992, traveling solo for 5 weeks, sometimes with new friends along the way.

The Spanish Colonial buildings pictured below are the demolished ruins put back together by the conquering Spainards and their slave armies.




"At its peak, it was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. 

It subsequently became a cabecera of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Today, the ruins of Tenochtitlan are in the historic center of the Mexican capital. The World Heritage Site of Xochimilco contains what remains of the geography (water, boats, floating gardens) of the Mexica capital."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan
(all photos via Wikipedia and respective artists)


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