Motecuzoma facing the reality of the myth

Abstract

This work was born as a first approach to the old ways of conceiving a reality alien to ours. As a man of my time, I could not stop thinking of History as a series of events, which, at all times, had to be real events and, therefore, events that actually happened. But what happens when we approach a series of events that, to begin with, have nothing to do with the way we perceive what we call History. To clarify the aforementioned, we must take cautiously the manuscripts that a series of religious people wrote, or in their case their assistants, who in their eagerness to refute the ancient indigenous culture left us, in turn, a series of stories that at first glance sound like events and events that are totally real and easy to be documented. But in some cases that is mere illusion, and if we stick to seeing in those stories a historical discourse with great sorrow, we will see that they can lead us to a dead end or to a lie that we can take as an unobjectionable truth. To avoid these follies or entanglements in which the mind of a historian can easily become alienated, it is necessary to resort to other disciplines that may well expand or clarify these hard paths of history.