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Aztlán (from , ) is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. ''Aztecah'' is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan". The place Aztlan is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and each of them give different lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from Aztlan to central Mexico, but the Mexica who went on to found Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts. Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlan and tend to place it either in northwestern Mexico or the southwest US, although there are significant doubts about whether the place is purely mythical or represents a historical reality. ==Legend== Nahuatl legends relate that seven tribes lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the place of the seven caves". Each cave represented a different Nahua group: the Xochimilca, Tlahuica, Acolhua, Tlaxcalan, Tepaneca, Chalca, and Mexica. Because of their common linguistic origin, those groups are called collectively "Nahuatlaca" (Nahua people). These tribes subsequently left the caves and settled "near" Aztlán, or Aztatlan. The various descriptions of Aztlán apparently contradict each other. While some legends describe Aztlán as a paradise, the Codex Aubin says that the Aztecs were subject to a tyrannical elite called the Azteca Chicomoztoca. Guided by their priest, the Aztec fled, and, on the road, their god Huitzilopochtli forbade them to call themselves ''Azteca'', telling them that they should be known as ''Mexica''. Ironically, scholars of the 19th century—in particular Alexander von Humboldt and William H. Prescott—would name them ''Aztec''. Humboldt's suggestion was widely adopted in the 19th century as a way to differentiate "modern" Mexicans from pre-conquest Mexicans. Aztlán plays a slightly less important role in Aztec legendary histories than the migration to Tenochtitlán itself. Some say that the southward migration began on May 24, 1064 CE, after the Crab Nebula events from May to July 1054. Each of the seven groups is credited with founding a different major city-state in Central Mexico. The newest translation of the "Anales de Tlatelolco" gives the only date known related to the exit from Aztlan; day-sign "4 Cuauhtli" (Four Eagle) of the year "1 Tecpatl" (Knife) or 1064-1065,〔Anales de Tlatelolco, Rafael Tena INAH-CONACULTA 2004 p 55〕 and correlated to January 4, 1065. Two city-states reputedly had an Aztec foundation: * Tepaneca — now Azcapotzalco, a ''delegación'' (borough) of the Mexican Federal District−Mexico City. * Matlatzinca — who spoke the Otomian language. These city-states formed during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology (ca. 1300–1521 CE). Cristobal del Castillo mentions in his book "Fragmentos de la Obra General Sobre Historia de los Mexicanos", that the lake around the Aztlan island was called Metztliapan or "Lake of the moon." 〔Fragmentos de la Obra General Sobre Historia de los Mexicanos, Cristobal del Castillo pages 58-83〕 According to Aztec legends, the Mexica tribe emigrated last. When they arrived at their new homeland, the present-day Valley of Mexico, all available land had been taken, and they were forced to squat on the edge of Lake Texcoco. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aztlán」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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