Have you read Miguel Leon Portilla's stuff on Aztec philosophy? In one work he translated the Tlatelolco account of the conquest, which is itself a bit biased against its sister city of Tenochtitlan but quite interesting. One story he tells involves a mysterious owl warrior that the Spanish were unable to defeat.
@@VarnVlog I really like his work uncovering Aztec philosophy, in particular Nezahualcoyotl. An interesting window into a Mesoamerican philosophical tradition tragically cut short by Spanish religious absolutism. What's doubly interesting is we get it via post-conquest Nahua sources who had memorized the content of the books burned by the Conquistadors yet worked as scribes for the Spanish (I think where we get a lot of this stuff)
Have you read Miguel Leon Portilla's stuff on Aztec philosophy? In one work he translated the Tlatelolco account of the conquest, which is itself a bit biased against its sister city of Tenochtitlan but quite interesting. One story he tells involves a mysterious owl warrior that the Spanish were unable to defeat.
@@sankarchaya I have read some of it, but I clearly need to read more
@@VarnVlog I really like his work uncovering Aztec philosophy, in particular Nezahualcoyotl. An interesting window into a Mesoamerican philosophical tradition tragically cut short by Spanish religious absolutism. What's doubly interesting is we get it via post-conquest Nahua sources who had memorized the content of the books burned by the Conquistadors yet worked as scribes for the Spanish (I think where we get a lot of this stuff)
wouldn't be a Varn blog without shitting on Graeber.