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Toltec Mythology: The Complete Guide to Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and the Lost City of Tula

Toltec Mythology

Toltec Mythology: The Complete Guide to Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and the Lost City of Tula

Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and the Lost City of Tula

The myths of the Toltecs, the master-builders the Aztecs remembered as the source of all civilization: the priest-king Quetzalcoatl and his fall, the dark sorcerer Tezcatlipoca, the morning star, and the stone warriors who still stand guard over the ruins of Tula.

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  • 11 chapters, primary sources
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  • Original ink illustrations
  • Inline citations to the Nahua codices
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  1. 01Tollan Remembered: The Aztec Dream of the Toltecs
  2. 02Tula: The City of the Stone Warriors
  3. 03Mixcoatl, the Cloud Serpent, and the Founding of a People
  4. 04Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, the Priest-King
  5. 05The Feathered Serpent and the Morning Star
  6. 06Tezcatlipoca, the Smoking Mirror
  7. 07The Fall of Quetzalcoatl and the Flight from Tula
  8. 08The Promise to Return: A Myth and Its Long Shadow
  9. 09The Gods and Rites of the Toltec World
  10. 10The Fall of Tula
  11. 11Toltecayotl: The Legacy of the Toltecs

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Guillaume Henry

Founder of Mythologis

Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.

  • Primary sources first
  • No invented quotations
  • Cross-referenced across translations
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