On the Social Organization And Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans
On the Social Organization And Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans
Bandelier Adolph Francis Alphonse
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(4). " Tlacacllel," who, as Durdn and Tezozomoc both repeatedly and plainly assert, was the snake-woman or "Cihuacohuatl." In this intance, however, he is graced with the title of ** man of the house of darts " (" Tlacochcalcatl ")» and thus made one of the four leaders of the " phratries.'* This is an evident mistake, as the latter title belonged to Montezuma (the first, or *'old one'O* Compare Torquetnada (Lib. II, cap. XXXVI, p. 140; cap. XLIIl, p. liO, where he is called *• captain-general ..."), Vetancurt (Part II, Trat. I, cap. XV, p. 293), also Durdn (Lam. 8a, Parte la). (5). Twenty war-chiefs, each one of whom commanded the warriors of one kin or. calpulli, hence they were the military leaders of twenty Mexican kins. Besides the indications to that effect furnished by Durdn (Cap. XXVI 1, p. 224), "& los seiior^s de los ctilpvUs no los vimos ni nos habUron," said the sor- cerers which had been sent to Huitzilopochtli's mother, after she had asked them about the chiefs or captains, seven in number, which had led the Mexi- cans originally, (see note 33).
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