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The Potato

June 1, 2015January 11, 2018Terry Sovil

By Terry Sovil from the June 2015 Edition My good friend Carlos and I were in Centro Manzanillo. It is late morning and lunch sounds good. We pop into a busy local restaurant. Part of the meal is potato salad. Is that Mexican? Back in Minnesota, United States, we had a fast food restaurant called “Taco […]

AZTEC MEDICINE

June 1, 2015January 11, 2018Kirby Vickery

By Kirby Vickery from the June 2015 Edition Over the past year I have had a lot of fun telling Aztec mythology stories. I have come to believe that their society was a lot closer to their mythology than other ancient peoples. For western man most all mythology belief has melded, into religion in one form […]

Aztec Maize

May 1, 2015October 16, 2017Kirby Vickery

By Kirby Vickery from the May 2015 Edition Although the Conquistadors of the 1500’s would argue for gold and other hard treasure and today’s historians would argue for legumes, pepper, cocoa, or even tobacco; corn would be my vote for the greatest discovery they brought back with them. 80% of the crop in the United States goes […]

Aztec Mythology

April 1, 2015January 11, 2018Kirby Vickery

By Kirby Vickery from the April 2015 Edition I believe that Aztec mythology would be easier understood by modern people if we could get our minds wrapped around the concept that sacrifice and bloodletting were paramount in Aztec culture and that those killed for religious reasons were not looked upon as victims of anything but during their […]

An Aztec Dwarf Story

February 1, 2015January 11, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the February 2015 Edition A dwarf’s life in the courts of Europe during the Dark Ages and on into the Renaissance was probably one of misery. Within the courts they were cast as jesters and fools. They were little people although cute but also to be persecuted because of their size. […]

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

December 1, 2014January 12, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the December 2014 Edition THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN was written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo. On the very top this is a chronicle of the downfall of the Aztec Empire written by one of Cortez’s own captains. Beyond that the book itself becomes a story within a […]

Toltec Tie-in

August 1, 2014January 18, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2014 Edition I’m really into a book written by Lewis Spence (Published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 1994). Spence was a mythologist and died in 1955. The original publication of ‘The Myths of Mexico and Peru’ was published by George C. Harrap & Company Ltd. London., in 1913. Even […]

Mysteries of the Fifth Sun: the Aztec Calendar

July 1, 2014January 20, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the July 2014 Edition –Valley of Anahuac, New Year’s Eve, 1507. Tenochtitlán, the great island city, capital of the Mexica empire, lies cloaked in darkness. An eerie silence pervades the vast ceremonial center the Teocalli or Templo Mayor spreading out over Moctezuma’s splendid palace, with its botanical gardens and well-stocked zoo, across […]

The Magnificent Ebb and Flow of the English Language

July 1, 2014January 20, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the July 2014 Edition I used to open my classes with, “I’m looking for dead words. Anybody got any?” The rules we established were that it couldn’t have been slang and it can’t be found in any current dictionary. The last one which has been found by my group is the word, […]

The Game

June 1, 2014January 20, 2018Manzanillo Sun Writer

By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Some men like to take the family to a Sunday game. If the family doesn’t have an interest the guy’s friends do and with tickets they all can be entertained for about three hours with some socializing before and after the game. This is the modern man’s dream […]

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