Chichimec

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• This cave array represented Chicomoztoc, seven mythical caverns from which Chichimec ancestors were believed to have first emerged.

• PHOTO (COLOR): After the conquest, Chichimec priests make offerings at the temple in Cholula.

  Academic text (2009)

• Here, Chichimec warriors fight a shape-shifting bird-sorcerer.

  Academic text (2009)

• PHOTO (COLOR): A Toltec priest and a Chichimec warrior sacrifice two women on the road to Cholula.

  Academic text (2009)

• PHOTO (COLOR): Chichimec warriors fly from their mythical place of origin to join the Toltecs in a victorious battle for the city of Cholula.

  Academic text (2009)

• An illustration in the top-left corner of the map shows Chichimec warriors flying out of a seven-chambered cave following their goddess Itzpapalotl, who carries a severed human leg as a battle standard.

  Academic text (2009)

• For a newly acculturated Chichimec trying to bring some order into his world of chaos and confusion, there was probably no other celestial phenomenon that seemed to hold more promise of security and stability than this remarkable and easily identifiable cluster of stars, and on them he pinned his fortune.

  Academic text (1992)

• It may also have served in rituals and to teach Chichimec history, or as evidence in court when Cuauhtinchan unsuccessfully sued the Tepeacans to return their land in 1546-47, and again in 1628.

  Academic text (2009)

• Around 1,000 years ago in central Mexico, the Chichimec people founded a town known as Acatzingo Viejo.

• Some of the most notable artworks were produced in Cuauhtinchan, a Chichimec village nine miles east of Oxtotipan.

Synonyms

N

Native American

vsChichimec

93 3.4

A person whose family lived in North or South America before Europeans arrived

is narrower and names groups from northern Mexico in pre Columbian times

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Etymology