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Huitzilopochtli appeared to
one of the priests and told him to search for the eagle on a cactus who was eating a
serpent. That cactus, was called tenochtli. In among the rushes, at the edge of a spring, they saw an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a snake. The Aztecs built their city at this place on the island of Tenoch. |
At first their city was
built with sticks and hay because they had no rock. The most important building in
the city was the temple to HUITZILOPOCHTLI.
Nothing much now remains of the Great Temple .... The Templo Mayor ... but historians, archaeologists and anthropologists have worked together to work out what it must have been like. |
