Western imagination and rhetoric: The origins of the Aztecs-Mexicas in the Chronicle Mexicáyotl

Abstract

In this article analyzes and explicit nature prevailing in writing of the alleged "origins" and their relationship to the land and other elements in the Chronicle Mexicayotl. At the same time, the project in which the writing of said chronicle is show: the History of salvation. Thus, starting from the premise that in the texts there is no immanent meaning and that the reception of the texts is historical, this article is added to the series of works that propose different angles in the way in which the chronicles are studied and occupied of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.