Guests: Mike Burns, President of Alpine Bank
Announcements:
Angie Beach - The Interact Club is growing with one of their latest
projects being cooking at the Mana Soup
Kitchen. The club is planning a trip, and giving up their Spring
Vacation, in order to help a town in
Bill Cartwright - The Wells Fargo Bank has returned as a sponsor for Red Ball
Express again this year. Tickets need to be returned by
Steve Redding - Youth Services cup is running over and they could use
volunteers to get involved with their activities. Please get in touch with
Steve and give them a hand. Thanks
Tom Brossia - Capital Projects held a meeting
immediately after HNR.
Steve Govreau - Wayne Bedors' wife Donna is very
ill. Please keep them in your hearts and minds.
Dan Morgenstern - There will be a classical music concert at St. Columba, Friday, January 13, 2006, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Steve Wheeldon - LaPlata
Open Space Conservancy's Snowdown Wine Tasting &
Fine Art Exhibition will be held Thursday, February 2, 2006. Tami
Coddington - A big Thank You for all those who rang the Salvation Army bell
over the holidays. We took in more money this year than the
Kiwanis.
Guest Speaker - Professor Marilee White,
DISCLAIMER - None of the Aztec names in this article are even remotely
spelled correctly. Ms White was asked to be concise and give us a brief,
30-minute, talk on Aztec culture so it is written as she spoke; or as close as
the writer could come.
Aztec relevance to us; they were under divine order to conquer and subjugate by
order of religion.
Archeologically - advanced peoples
Created Books - diagrammed what they did with words and pictorial etchings.
Sacrificed - Was for the greater good and to themselves; so the bluebloods were
sacrificed.
Deity - Quaxlique - Life
was a duality; for life to occur death must occur and vice versus.
Books - Their historians were extremely into, but destroyed mostly by Spaniards
and only four remained. Artists and priests passed on the
knowledge. Their books were made of the bark of fig and andante trees,
and then folded in an overlap fashion. They referred to their books as
codices.
Aztecs - There were seven clans and seven families who were immigrants to Tulox, what is now North Western Mexico; into the Toltec
area. They took over some of the Toltec ideas and adopted them as there
own. In the beginning they were originally promised
land in what is known to us as
When Cortez first laid eyes on the city he was amazed at how clean it was
compared to his home. Although he only had 200 men compared to the
200,000 Aztecs, the difference in cultures allowed the Spaniards to overcome
and conquer the Aztecs. The Spaniards set about leveling the Templar Miore - which was a common practice then - and built their
own city on top.
If you visit today you can see where an observatory was built in front of the
large temple with two towers representing their two gods at the time. At
the summer equinox the sun will shine from the observatory right between the
two towers letting the Aztecs now it was time to begin planting.
As stated before, only the bluebloods were sacrificed to the gods of the sun -
their hearts would be cut out - but the year prior to this happening they lived
a very good life and nothing the city was denied them. Examples of the
blades used for this procedure were made of exquisitely carved stone made to
look very much like a human.
The Aztecs had two calendars; a 260-day ritual (religious) and 365-day solar
calendar. Taxes were stiff in
On a last note; The Aztec Empire was created in 1325, but in 1475 the history
was recorded to reflect they were not immigrant, but descended from the
Toltec's. We are not the only one who rewrite history to reflect what we
think/believe how it sho