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Abandoned Footnotes: Aztec Political Thought

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Fascinating post! Pondering your question on whether classical western political thought has a similar concept to the ruler-as-enemy among the Mexicali. Would the desire of the apostle Paul to be "the anathema of Christ" come close? Thanks Paul! I don't know enough about your reference to Paul to say so, though, a few people have mentioned Mesopotamian gods as similar. Seems like the Mexica lived under Cthulhu. I guess bloody Cortéz was indeed a sort of liberator, after all. You did not understand the concept of Tezcatlipoca and there is so much ignorance. Tezcatlipoca is a real and imagined entity. He is the darkness within us all that we deny and it faces us in the mirror when its too late. Tezcatlipoca is the name to all that which we consider "misforture" or "fortune" but without the maturity and wisdom to realize it is all, and neither good or bad. Tezcatlipoca's message is that we are our own worst enemy. As such, we are also our own best friend. The Mexica world view is distingu

Abandoned Footnotes: Aztec Political Thought Thursday, November 21, 2013 Aztec Political Thought (A footnote on Inga Clendinnen’s extraordinary “ Aztecs: An Interpretation .” If there’s a better book on the Aztecs than this, I want to read it). The Aztecs are hard to love. Theirs was a highly hierarchical society in which human sacrifice was a hugely important practice, ruling over a tributary empire oppressive enough that Cortés and his small band of Spaniards were easily able to foment rebellion among subject peoples and eventually destroy Tenochtitlan, despite being

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