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 Everywhere they told them: —“Who are you? —Where do you come from?” (Matritense Codex Royal History Academy, fol. 180r.)

After pilgrimaging for some time and with many adventures, because nobody wanted them and feared them, they settled in an island of the great lagoon and established their capital towards the year 1325, barely 194 years before the arrival of the Europeans and the destruction of their empire. Professor Séjourné states that the mexicas began their expansion from a primitive cultural background.

"Considering their will as the only possible magic force, the men of this episode seem to want to proudly differentiate themselves from the animal and plant world with which thus far were so closely related, and replaced the sorceress by the warrior chief. This seems to indicate that the aztecs did not know more than the archaic witchcraft laws until they made contact with religious beliefs [basically philosophical A.N.] of the highlands, beliefs they immediately adopted in their rudimentary mentality.”

''“My main coming and my work is war... I have to keep and gather all sorts of Nations, and this is not graceful.” (Mexican Chronicler, Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc.)'' ____________________