Please answer all of the questions Questzalcoatl
How did Quetzalcoatl look physically?
How would you characterize the Toltecs and their culture?
What is significant about the priests of Tula copying the conduct of Quetzalcoatl, according to the text?
What relationship develops between the Huaxtec (Tezcatlipoca in disguise) and Quetzalcoatl once the latter’s daughter has been healed?
How does the Huaxtec win the approval of the Toltecs?
What might be the significance of the Toltec’s inability to remove the corpse of the man they stoned to death, and of their reaction to this failure?
Before Quetzalcoatl leaves for Tlapallan, what does he do with his belongings?
What is ironic about the companions that Quetzalcoatl has with him on his journey between the mountains Popocatepetl and Iztactepetl?
What are the most remarkable things that Quetzalaocatl does on his journey beyond the mountains to Tlapallan?
Please answer all of the questions Huitzilopochtli
Who is Coatlicue related to and how does she become pregnant?
What do Coyolxauhqui and the four hundred gods of the south decide to do to Coatlicue, and why?
What did Cuahuitlicac do for Hutizilopochtli?
What became of Coyolxauhqui after Huitzilopochtli was born?
What did Huitzilopochtli do to the four hundred gods of the south?
Reading Questions on ‘Metaphysical and Theological Ideas of the Nahuas’
Please answer all of the questions.
At the beginning of their comments, do the tlamatinime seem humble or proud?
Whom do they speak for, and why do the tlamatinime do what they do?
Why are they “disturbed…[and] troubled”?
According to these wise men, what do the gods do for humanity?
What do the tlamatinime have to say regarding the beginning of the gods and man’s worship of them?
What do the tlamatinime say regarding the teachings of the Spanish priests?
Reading Questions on ‘Philosophy, Education and the Aztecs’
Please answer all three questions “From the heavens they come” poem
1. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in the first seven lines of the poem?
2. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in lines 22-28?
3. Using the reading as your guide, what do you think Cuetzpalin is saying in lines 29-36?