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قراءة كتاب Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation
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Montezuma: An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation
MONTEZUMA.
ON
THE ORIGIN AND FATE
OF THE
AZTEC NATION.
BY
HIRAM HOYT RICHMOND.
GOLDEN ERA CO
1885.
the office of the Librarian of Congress.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
TO
HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT,
The pains-taking historian and the one of all others who induced
to a final effort
THIS BOOK,
By his grateful friend and ardent partisan,
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| EGYPT. | |
| PAGE. | |
| The Dispersal at Shinar | 1 |
| Sojourn in Egypt | 4 |
| Sun Worship | 7 |
| Expulsion from Egypt | 36 |
| Mizraim and Lud | 37 |
| The Mourning Shepherds | 41 |
| The Journey | 43 |
AZTLAN. |
|
| The Valley of the Mississippi | 53 |
| The Morning Song of the Mound Builders | 59 |
| The Evening Thanksgiving and Prayer | 61 |
| The Prophet's Death | 63 |
| Departure of Wabun | 72 |
| Return and Strife | 79 |
| Prehistoric Rendezvous of the Aztecs | 84 |
| The Toltecs Journey South | 88 |
| The Aztecs—Aztlan | 92 |
ANAHUAC. |
|
| The Aztec's Journey and Settlement South | 102 |
| The Empire of Montezuma | 105 |
| The Landing of the Spaniards | 116 |
| Arrival of the Spaniards at Mexico | 125 |
| Death of Montezuma | 134 |
| Conclusion | 142 |
| Malinche | 151 |
| The Harp of the West | 181 |
ARGUMENT OF THE POEM.
From the moment of my earliest acquaintance with Colonial History, I have felt all the pressure of a task laid upon me, tightening its grasp as I reached maturer years; that of an attempt to rescue the Aztecs from their letterless and mythical position in history, to the position which their possibilities at least argue for them; and this feeling has been far less the outgrowth of the enthusiasm awakened for the Aztecs, as the indignation felt at the whole conduct of the Spanish Conquest.
Realizing the gravity of the task, I have been led to carefully weigh and investigate the different theories advanced as to the origin of the Aztecs, and to adopt the argument of the poem as the best ground on which to unite the Sun Worship of the East with the Mythology of of the West.
Reverently, and with a full realization of how great must ever be the distance between the actual work and the ideal of my early inspiration, I lay the gathered chaplet at the shrine of old