To begin, it stages a frontier reality that Alarcon, growing up as he did during the
Chichimec War, could not have failed to experience.
However, we know that at least in the Convent of Corpus Christi there were Nahua, Olomi, and
Chichimec women; in the Convent of Nuestra Senora de Cosamaloapan there were Tarascan women; and in the Convent of Nuestra Senora de los Angeles there were Mixtec and Zapotec women (Muriel, "Los conventos de monjas" 81).
Both ranchers and indios de paz banded together to protect themselves during
Chichimec raids.
1996 Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic
Chichimec.
A kind of hierarchy of civilizations--outlined most famously by Jesuit Jose de Acosta--developed in which it was assumed that urban, imperial, stable societies like the Mexica were more capable of understanding Catholicism than the "barbaric" groups like the
Chichimec.
The four districts each had temples dedicated to the principal gods, though these were overshadowed by the Great Temple, a man-made mountain constructed within the central precinct and topped by dual shrines dedicated to the Toltec storm god Tlaloc and the
Chichimec war god Huitzilopochtli.
SEVEN CAVES OF CREATION Around 1,000 years ago in central Mexico, the
Chichimec people founded a town known as Acatzingo Viejo.
Otomi style songs were not in Nahuatl but in the
Chichimec language.
It is a very common foodstuff among the
Chichimec Indians, as it gives them strength in combat and they fear nothing and feel neither hunger or thirst, and say that it protects them from any danger.
The first was between the grandson of the ruler of the Tlatelolco Mexicas and the granddaughter of Yohuallatonac, the
Chichimec ruler of Cuauhquechollan, in AD 1397.
Originally, Hungry Coyote's metropolis of Texcoco, which means "Place of Rest," had been founded by a wandering
Chichimec people who called themselves the Alcolhuans and were hunters and nomads from the desert, formerly living in caves and wearing animal skins.
Dibble, demonstrating his initial deep as well as developing knowledge of the Codex Xolotl draws out three important threads from these two scenes: (1) the relationship of the scenes to the
Chichimec ancestry of Nezahualcoyotl; (14) (2) the involvement of priests and ritual in the "swearing" ceremony; (15) and (3) the relationship of the feather work device with the concept of "legitimate successor.
