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History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca

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From the Eco Travels in Latin America website - This book offers a new translation that is literally a new telling of this Aztec codex. A lively story, complete with a thorough index - it's the first publication of this work in English as well. The chronicle presents background on the origin of the year count, the life of Quetzalcoatl and the wars of the Mexica.

The book is an excellent base for the study of prehispanic Mexico. It is extremely useful also for the student of Nahuatl language because it also offers the full original version of these texts in the companion volume. It gives a slightly different point of view to these two fundamental texts from the spanish translation by Primo Feliciano Velazquez. Although less poetic than the spanish version, it is probably closer to the litteral meaning of the nahuatl original, and thus very useful for the understanding of each fragment separately. It is a classical work which can be bought in full confidence.