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Castillos flotantes

Old Prophecies foretell our Fall at hand, When bearded Men in floating Castles land. I fear it is dire Portent.

Etiquetas: Destrucción, Encuentro de dos mundos, Literatura, Presagio, Teatro

Ciudad del lago

Your eyes can scarce so far a Prospect make; As to discern the City on the Lake

Etiquetas: Ciudad de México, Ciudades, Literatura, Teatro

Cortéz, Hernán

Mont. kneels to Cort. Mont. Patron of Mexico and God of Wars, Son of the Sun, and Brother of the Stars-

Etiquetas: Españoles como dioses, Literatura, Moctezuma, Teatro

You Choler, General, does unjustly rise, To see your Friends pursue your Enemies; The greatest and most cruel Foes we have Are these, whom you would ignorantly save. By ambush’d Men, behind their Temple laid, We have the King of Mexico betray’d.

Etiquetas: Estrategia militar, Indígenas, Literatura, Teatro, Traición

Españoles

Nor are they Foes my Clemency defends, Until they hace refus’d the Name of Friends: Draw up our Spaniards by themselves, then fire Our Guns on all who do not straight retire.

Etiquetas: Batallas, Conquista, Literatura, Muerte, Teatro

Hamaca

A Chamber-Royal, and Indian Hammock discover’d in it.

Etiquetas: Literatura, Monarquía, Objetos cotidianos, Teatro

Indio

Pis. Our Men, tho’ valiant, we should find too few. But Indians join the Indians to subdue; Taxallan, shook by Montezuma’s Powers, Has resist his Forces call’d our own.

Etiquetas: Conquista, Literatura, Opresión azteca, Teatro

México

Some petty Prince, and one of little Fame, For to this Hour I never heard his Name. The two great Empires of the World I know, that of Peru m and this of Mexico

Etiquetas: Grandeza, Imperio, Literatura, Teatro

Moctezuma

Monarch of Empires , and hither led by Fame, Not by Constraint but by my Choice I came: Ambassador of Peace, if Peace you choose Or Herald of a War, ir you refuse.

Etiquetas: Guerra, Literatura, Señales de paz, Teatro

Monstruos divinos

What divine Monsters , O ye Gods, were these That float in Air, and fly upon the Seas!

Etiquetas: Encuentro de dos mundos, Extrañeza, Literatura, Teatro, Tecnología

Nuevo Mundo

Cort. Heav’n from all Ages wifely did provide This Wealth, for the bravest Nation hide, Who with four hundred Foot and Forty Horse, Dare boldly go to a new found World force.

Etiquetas: Conquista, Españoles, Literatura, Teatro, Valentía

Relámpagos y truenos

Our Foes with Lightning and with Thunder fight, My men in vain shun Death by shameful Flight; For Deaths invisible come wing’d with Fire, They hear a dreadful Noise, and straight expire.

Etiquetas: Armas, Batallas, Literatura, Teatro

Sacrificio

The incense is upon the Altar plac’d, The bloody Sacrifice already past. Five hundred Captives saw the rising Sun, Who lost their Light ere half his Race had run. That which remains we must celebrate; Where far from Noise, without the City Gate,…

Etiquetas: Ceremonias, Literatura, Sacrificios humanos, Teatro

Sol

The Sun, my Father, bears my Soul on high: He lets me down a Beam, and mounted there He draws back, and pulls me through the Air: I in the Eastern Parts, and rising Sky, You in Heav’ns Downfall, and the West must lie.

Etiquetas: Guerra, Literatura, Muerte, Teatro

Templo

A Nation loving Gold must rule this Place, Our Temples ruin, and or Rites deface: To them, O King, is thy lost Sceptre giv’en

Etiquetas: Leyenda negra, Literatura, Teatro, Templos

Tierra de hadas

Vazq: Methinks we walk in Dreams of Fairy Land , Where golden Ore lies mixt with common Sand; each Downfal of a Flood of Mountains pour From their rich Bowels, rolls a Silver Shower.

Etiquetas: Literatura, Mundo mágico, Riqueza, Teatro

Tlaxcaltecas

Pis. Our Men, tho’ valiant, we should find too few. But Indians join the Indians to subdue; Taxallan shook by Montezuma’s Power, Has, to resist his Forces, call’d our own.

Etiquetas: Conquista, Literatura, Moctezuma, Opresión azteca, Teatro, Tiranía