When Appear in Mexico the first use signs of cactus fiber or pita obtained from maguey plants?
Pre-Hispanic tissues sandals made of pita are found in pre-hispanic tombs and preserved in museum, which shows that the use of cactus fiber in this kind of embroidery is oldest of what local populations in some Mexican states are listed and attached as the discoverers of the “piteado” art.
Time ago the Mexican Indians believed that the gods were self sacrified for men. That their blood had given them life. And the sun was fed with the blood of human hearts, so many sacrifices prisoners in their temples. (The movie "Apocalipto" a bit exaggerated not far from reality).
The work produced by artisans were very common at this time in Nahuatl language "Tlachihualli means handmade.
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Among the tribes that settled in Mesoamerica in the period of the dominion of Moctezuma IIhuicamina the fifth of eleven Aztec sovereign lordship extended his government from central Veracruz to the highlands of Oaxaca, all those territories under his leadership sent to Tecnochtitlan (Now Mexico D.F.), corn, beans, Hot Pepper, Snuff, Cocoa, and other foods. Also blankets, furs, feathers, Cactus fiber (PITA) to make the warriors costume, and their rudimentary weapons tying stones to the tip of sharp sticks, also sent gold, jewelry, jade, paper made from maguey fiber and turquoise.
Moctezuma who governed from 1440-1469 B.C. brought to Tenochtitlan and Chalco architects and silversmiths from the Mixteca.
Solid stone buildings replacing the old huts of straw, was the fertile region where agriculture thrives, plentiful fishing and hunting for animals like deer, rabbits and many birds, all this plus the taxes received, allowed that old Mexico city – “Tenochtitlan” grew dramatically: once had about two hundred thousand people who were already using the Maguey fibers to design some items for everyday use or dress.
In Nahuatl, the leaders received the title of "tlatoani" one who speaks (tlatoa in Nahuatl means "talk" tlacatecuhtli or "noble" as the supreme ruler Hueitlatoani (Huei means "great" Although the new Mexican slang verbal young people talk among themselves Wey, that means “ox”... As review of camaraderie, they may not know anything about returning home in the original language of their ancestors). The Hueitlatoani not inherit the throne as the kings of Europe, but was chosen from members of the ruling family.
The Hueitlatoani, had orders to their captains, judges, priests, merchants and tax collectors, almost all of noble origin. The conquered territories paid tribute to the Mexican warriors, and sometimes contributed to the expedition of conquest but retained their own rulers and their gods, and their customs. Many of these domains were hated and feared the Mexican powerful. Today, even in the Republic of Mexico, the capital is not very well seen in the cities of the province that disparagingly call them "Chilango "that in a native language meant Stinking bad stagnant water
Tenochtitlan grew like a flower water formed by a network of waterways of the great Texcoco Lake by moving canoes.
Currently these are vestiges of aqueducts in Chapultepec and Coayacan in the capital of Mexico, in the sacred enclosure had seventy-eight temples surrounded by snakes, among the archaeological pieces that are used as tools at the time there are vestiges of Maguey PLANT FIBER AND FIBER used by the natives of that time as well as the use and fruits of the plant derived from corn.
The largest temple recently discovered at the side of the current Metropolitan Cathedral on one side of the current base of Mexico City was dedicated to the gods Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli, the plan and design of city was commissioned by the conqueror Hernan Cortés.
The old Mexico had a minority government structure dedicated to noble families, religion and war, the pipiltin. The nobility, who had inherited land, was planted with corn or maguey, and place their palaces.
In modern brands as NIKE FOOTWEAR © honoring Hispanic heritage and practices in Latin America proposed the “piteado” tennis designed with pita fiber (ixtle) fiber woven the sides of the soles and on the edge of his forehead.
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del ixtle en México
En la parte central del continente Americano desde el centro de México hasta el Ecuador siempre existieron diferentes culturas que
llamaron “pita” a la fibra extraída de las plantas de maguey, pero la fibra de maguey empleada para la elaboración de artículos
piteados por su blancura, brillo y sedosidad es la que se obtiene de la Aechmea Magdalenae
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Some other people called the “macehuales” were peasants who lived in neighborhoods divided in calpullí and had the charge of maintaining and caring for these crops among others.
There was another class with certain privileges: they were artisans (goldsmiths, potters, feather art masters and those who spun and made up garments tracksuits warriors made of feathers, fiber blanket and maguey).
Another class that included the doctors, midwives fortunetellers, astronomers, and the merchants who served as ambassadors or spies, and sometimes unintentionally wore exchange of ideas and culture from other distant regions.
The war was a very important activity for the sake of the conquest of other Mexican territories and on religious grounds.
