Los mitos de la fundación de Tenochtitlan. Las águilas de Huitzilopochtli

Abstract

Through an analysis of different codices, which record the symbolic foundation of Tenochtitlan, and its contrast with the sources that recover the Nahuatl historiography and oral tradition of the Mexica, about the events that gave rise to it, we have tried to carry out an etnohistorical research exercise, that considers the meaning of the mythical interpretation in the ethnic history of the population that migrates to the Cuenca of Mexico. We try to glimpse the beginning of the process of construction of the social, economic and cosmogonic formulas that define the Mexica social formation, and that allow explaining the conformation of an empire or Cemanáhuac, as expressed from the different actions that the Eagle performs as spokesperson of Huitzilopochtli, defining his primacy as a deity based on the prophecy of the primacy of the Mexica, in the quadripartite Mesoamerican universe, which materializes in the islet where a nopal grows on a rocky outcrop or Tenochtitlan that it will be the headquarters of Huitzilopochtli and the Mexica Cemanáhuac.