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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe topic is Hernan Cortes. Ask me anything
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Answer: three.
Intrigued?
Ask away.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Oh and who is he?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)He missed his first chance to go to the New World because he broke his ankle jumping off a fence, because he was almost caught shtupping a married woman. He was a teenager at the time.
Only the intervention of the neighbors saved his life.
But he missed traveling to the New World With Orellana, 10 years earlier than otherwise.
DFW
(54,349 posts)Number one on the Nahuatl shit list for a few centuries, I imagine, until Donald Trump took over some four centuries later.
malthaussen
(17,187 posts)-- Mal
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Good music, very apropos.
Thanks!
Tom Kitten
(7,346 posts)That was one of the first albums I bought, when I was 15.
And then there's this, by Neil...
DFW
(54,349 posts)......before he could say "Mote:cuhzo:ma" correctly?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)DFW
(54,349 posts)I traveled through Guerrero once, heard plenty of Nahuatl. It didn't sound like it could be picked up in a week. I have no problem with Spanish, since I used to live in Spain, and Mexico, compared to some parts of Latin America, speaks a clear and accessible Spanish. But I don't know any American languages, and they don't seem very simple from a superficial listening. I could be wrong, though. When I first heard Swedish, I thought it would be impossible to learn, and it turned out to be the easiest language I ever tried to learn.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I met him in person here in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Cool dude, very approachable, very knowledgeable.
http://davidbowles.us/category/poetry/translations/nahuatl/
You can also find him on FB; one of the few people worth having as FB friend.
trof
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(43,890 posts)The Church and Hospital are supposedly located at the spot where Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II met for the first time in 1519, which was then the beginning of the causeway leading to Iztapalapa. Cortés ordered the hospital built to tend to Aztec soldiers wounded fighting with the Spanish.
In his last will, Cortés clearly states that he wanted the hospital to be built for the sons of the Aztec warriors who had perished in battle during the Conquest of Tenochtitlan. This was not an institution for wounded Spanish soldiers. It was built many years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.
In 1646, the hospital was the site of the first autopsies performed on the American continent, performed to teach anatomy to medical students of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. In 1715, the hospital published the Regia Academia Mariana Practica Medica to promote more professional practices in the field of medicine in New Spain. The building today continues to function as a hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_de_Jes%C3%BAs_Nazareno
In 1794, Cortés' bones were moved to the "Hospital de Jesus" (founded by Cortés), where a statue by Tolsa and a mausoleum were made. There was a public ceremony and all the churches in the city rang their bells.
In 1823, after the independence of México, it seemed imminent that his body would be desecrated, so the mausoleum was removed, the statue and the coat of arms were sent to Palermo, Sicily, to be protected by the Duke of Terranova. The bones were hidden, and everyone thought that they had been sent out of México. In 1836, his bones were moved to another place in the same building.
It was not until November 24, 1946 that they were rediscovered, thanks to the discovery of a secret document by Lucas Alamán.