:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/TP6DVL2U6FBB7JNYEFWZU6ELYE.jpg "The true origin of the national coat of arms which explains its pre-Hispanic meaning 1")
This Friday February 24commemorates another year at the mexico flag, one of the country’s most important patriotic symbols, if not the most important. The national flag, from when Mexico began as an independent nation in 1821, with the end of Mexican independenceIt has undergone several modifications.
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And it is that the first flag that was taken for good, was the one that the priest showed Miguel Hidalgo and Costilla one of the initiators of the Movement for Independence, where we see a Virgin of Guadalupe. Later it was modified and added elements that concluded with what is now known.
Perhaps one of the flag’s most notable is the national emblem, in which we see eagle standing on a nopal devouring a serpent. It is said that the origin of this shield dates back to the founding of Tenochtitlanwell when the aztecs they pilgrimage to find a new place to settle, their god, Huitzilopochtli, who was guiding them, told them that they had to stay in a place where they would find an eagle on the cactus devouring the snake. Or at least that’s what he says Code Boturini and others after the Conquest.
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The Mexicans settled in a islet in the center of Lake Texcoco, where according to legend they found the sign and from that moment the powerful figure became a symbol of the civilization that developed in the Valley of Mexico.
The eagle and the nopal are elements present since pre-Hispanic times, however, the serpent appeared after the Spanish conquest.
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The oldest representation of this emblem of which there is a record is the Theocalli of the Holy War, a Mexica monolith which represents a scale temple and which was created between the years 1200 and 1521, that is to say before the conquest of Mexico.
on the site of Mexican Archaeology, We can read that various scholars have studied the origins of national symbols. One of them is Jose Corona Nunez, for whom stone and tunas represent hearts.
In this sense, there is a story that tells that Copil, nephew of Huitzilopochtli, fight against his uncle. Huitzilopochtli He beats it and is sacrificed and his heart thrown into the middle of the lake, where it falls on a stone from which the tunal will sprout. It will serve as a sign for the foundation of Tenochtitlan.
In the text of the site specializing in archeology of Mexico, written by the Mexican archaeologist and historian Eduardo Matos Montezumarecalls that, for its part, the eagle has a solar connotation, and is related to Huitzilopochtli. “That’s how we see it from the moment the Mexicans leave Aztlan guided by him and by the tlacatecolotl Tetzauhtéotl”.
In a story of Christopher del Castillo it reads:
“Because the tlacatecolotl, who transforms into an eagle and flies past them, guiding them. This is how he communicated it to his server Huitzilopochwho is the master of mecitin. Told them:
– I will guide you wherever you go, I will show myself like an eagle, I will call you wherever you go, just look at me. And when I have arrived where it already seems good to me, where you will settle down, I will perch there, there you will see me, I will no longer fly. So that you immediately make my temple, my house, my bed of straw where I fled”.
Through this story and others, it is clear how the eagle stops on the tunal.
In reference to Theocalli of the Holy War, It is a Mexican sculpture that shows the above. We see a Mexica temple with its access staircase to the top, where there are two characters: Huitzilipochtli and Montezuma IIwho do penance.
As for the eagle, it is found at the back of the monument, standing on a cactus with prickly pears, which in turn was born from the earth represented by a figure with a mouth and teeth (Tlaltecuhtli, the earth) , in the middle of a water environment.
From the bird’s beak emerges what could be mistaken for a snake: the at-tlachinolli, which symbolizes war.
In the early years of Colonythe symbol continued to be used, as confirmed by plate 1 of the Mendoza Codexin which the city of tenochtitlan divided into four quadrants, and in the middle, the eagle standing on the nopal, which in turn, emerges from a stone. It can also be seen in codices such as the Duran and the Aubinspainted by tlacuilos or native painters who use the symbol that represents the founding of the city of Tenochtitlan.