Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico.

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  • Author(s): Townsend, Camilla (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    American Historical Review. Jun2003, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p659-687. 29p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      MILITARY occupation; MYTHOLOGY; INDIGENOUS peoples; CORTES, Hernan, 1485-1547
    • Subject Terms:
      MEXICO
    • Abstract:
      Discusses several perspectives on the conquest of Mexico, and the myth, in which the indigenous people believed that Hernando Cortés was Quetzalcoatl and the Spanish to be gods. Explanation of the origins and durability of the myth; Details of several assertions regarding the myth; Information on 'Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex,' a significant source of the legends associated with the conquest of Mexico; Background on the conquest of Mexico in 1519; Accounts of several conquistadors regarding the conquest of Mexico.