Overview
A 700 años de su fundación, Tenochtitlán resurge de las entrañas de la tierra para contar su historia.
Aunque nos separan siete siglos, mexicas y chilangos compartimos un pasado común escrito sobre un lugar donde alguna vez hubo un lago. La historia de Tenochtitlán es el preludio de la historia de la Ciudad de México y ha llegado la hora de mirarla a través de sus dioses y tlatoanis.
Este es un relato al más puro estilo de Game of Thrones, pero mexica y verídico, en el que, mientras los dioses hacían su voluntad, los tlatoanis aprendieron que era mejor someter que ser sometidos, explotar que ser explotados y que, para llegar a ser el imperio más poderoso de su época, necesitaban la guerra y hartos sacrificios humanos.
Los mexicas fueron una civilización excepcional —pioneros de la gentrificación en el valle de México—, su capital no tenía comparación en el mundo conocido y sus gobernantes escribieron su historia desde los entretelones del poder, la ambición, la venganza y la fuerza. Es decir, desde la compleja condición humana presente desde siempre en la historia.
Alejandro Rosas, divulgador de historia reconocido de México, ha decidido llevar hasta la piedra de los sacrificios la mal contada historia mexica y, a cambio, nos entrega una interpretación libre de prejuicios, de la retórica populista y de la sobrevaloración del pasado indígena promovida por el discurso oficialista.
Esta es la historia de Tenochtitlán como jamás la imaginaste. ¿Por qué? «Porque jamás la historia se atrevió a tanto».
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Seven hundred years after its founding, Tenochtitlán rises from the depths of the earth to tell its story.
Although seven centuries separate us, Mexicas and modern-day Mexico City dwellers share a common past written over a place where there was once a lake. The history of Tenochtitlán is the prelude to the history of Mexico City, and the time has come to view it through its gods and rulers.
This is a tale in the purest Game of Thrones style, but Mexica and true, in which, while the gods imposed their will, the tlatoanis learned that it was better to dominate than to be dominated, to exploit rather than be exploited, and that, to become the most powerful empire of their time, they needed war and countless human sacrifices.
The Mexicas were an exceptional civilization—pioneers of urban transformation in the Valley of Mexico—, their capital had no comparison in the known world, and their rulers wrote history from behind the scenes of power, ambition, vengeance, and strength. In other words, from the complex human condition present throughout history.
Alejandro Rosas, a renowned Mexican historian and popularizer, has decided to bring the poorly told Mexica story to the sacrificial stone and, in return, offers us an interpretation free of prejudice, populist rhetoric, and the overvaluation of the indigenous past promoted by official discourse.
This is the story of Tenochtitlán as you never imagined it. Why? “Because history had never dared so much.”
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