article on Aztecs

[Mel Sanchez]

Some list members expressed an interest in an article of some 15
misconceptions about the Aztecs.  It can be found in the journal Wicazo
Sa Review, Spring 1995, Volume XI, No. 1 by Associate Professor at the
Univ of Texas, Austin, Dr. Arnold Carlos Vento.  The title of the
article is Aztec Myths and Cosmology:  Historical Religious
Misinterpretations.  The 15 misinterpretations, according to the article
include: 1) polytheism among native cultures, 2) the concept of Hell,
Mikltan, 3) fatalism 4) native belief of the Spanish as Gods, 5)
Ketzalkoatl as a Messiah, 6) imperialism 7)slavery, 8) chiomoztok as the
seven cities of gold or Aztlan, 9) cannibalism, 10) human sacrifice by
bloodthirsty priests, 11)drunkenness, 12) myth of the debased woman, 13)
myth of Aztlan in the US, 14) European etymology of the word America,
and 15	) Nahuatl as a name for the national language or culture.

Any discussion and enlightenment for me on behalf of any scholars
generally, or specifically, after reading the article, would be
appreciated by me.

Since UT, Austin has such a high reputation in Mesoamerican studies, I
feel it would be strange for them to hire somebody with totally strange
ideas.  But I'm no great scholar.

Thanks, Mel Sanchez