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Thus, from Aztec hearsay, a 16th-century Franciscan friar described the legendary city of Tulsa, capital of Mexico's ancient Toltec empire and once ruled by the bearded emperor Quetzalcoatl...
...course, Anthropology 819 (hf)., is a review of ancient middle American cultures and includes the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations, together with a study of the present aboriginal population of the region. The course will make use of the archaeological collection in the Peabody Museum...
...spacious hall in the Escuela Republica de Mexico stood a volcanic panel in which huge figures, with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...
...That Aztec craftsmen, who decorated every available square inch of their Spanish Gothic and baroque churches, created a native hybrid style known as Mexican churrigueresque, which in turn influenced the baroque and rococo architecture of Spain...
...That one Latin-American building, the great cathedral in Mexico City, contains the whole stratified history of Latin-American architecture on and within its four walls; it has Aztec foundations, a 16th-Century Gothic ceiling, baroque and churrigueresque chapels, Moorish tile-work, East Indian decorative motifs, is yet one of the most harmoniously beautiful structures in the Western Hemisphere...