ID: 901001712 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001712	Record Type: Legendary Place

	Prophecy of Tenochtitlán (Aztec narrative, 14th century)

Note: Ancient prophecy that held the wandering Mexica tribes would find the destined site for a great city, the location revealed by an eagle devouring a snake while on a cactus. The Mexica saw this vision on the site of what was to become Tenochtitlán, originally a swampy island in Lake Texcoco.

Display Date: concerns city founded ca. 1325

Names:

	Prophecy of Tenochtitlán (Aztec narrative, 14th century) (preferred,c,English-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Amerindian iconography> (P)
		........<Aztec iconography> (P)
		............<Aztec narratives> (P)
		................Prophecy of Tenochtitlán (Aztec narrative, 14th century) (P)

Other Relationships:

	affiliated/associated with .... Aztec (culture or style)
	.....(Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles, Central Plateau Mesoamerican styles and periods, Mesoamerican regional styles and periods, Mesoamerican, Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods, Pre-Columbian (American), Americas, The, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... Tenochtitlan
	.....(Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, North and Central America) (TGN)

Sources:

	Prophecy of Tenochtitlán (Aztec narrative, 14th century)
	................Carrasco, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire (1992) 148
	................De Rojas, Tenochtitlan (2014)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 15 March 2017

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 15 March 2017
	................ Velasco, Lentz, and Ochoa, City Indians in Spain's American Empire (2014) 63