The voices of history, poetry, mysticism, and the Mexica worldview in “Canto de Macuilxochitzin,” a poem for Axayácatl and some brave women.
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Axayácatl, History, Poetry, MysticismAbstract
Macuilxochitl, is the only poetess recognized by Miguel León Portilla (1984) in his book Thirteen Poets of the Aztec World, the poem attributed to our author is a yaocuícatl, a song to war, in it allusion is made to the victories of Axayácatl and how the tlatoani was wounded by an Otomi. In a comparative analysis I will expose the coincidence and rupture of the song with the historical sources, the dialogue with Aquiauhtzin, also the image of the warrior ruler and lover of Art is exposed, equally the role of some anonymous women that the author mentions so that their memory endures.
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