Rivera mural

Here is the center 1/3 of the main mural in the National Palace. If you can find the eagle on the cactus towards the center right, you´ll notice that instead of a snake in it´s mouth there is burning water. This was a symbolic of how serious the situation was for the indigenous people because to them burning water signified something only a god could conceive.

Mexico City Pt III

June 25th 2006
And the weekend continues... Sunday we toured downtown Mexico City. As I mentioned earlier, the entire city was built on a lake. Fast fact: this is because the indigenous people were searching for a place to centralize their empire. They were looking for a sign from their god of an eagle sitting on a cactus with a snake in it´s mouth. They found the sign in the middle of a lake and startin ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more

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