Origin Myth Quote by Matthew Restall

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are…

— Jerry Pournelle

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The cement of…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

“These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers”

— Oscar Zeta Acosta

“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth,…

— C.S. Lewis

“That's what people say about Mexico," Morgan said, "a death culture, the Indians and their blood sacrifices mixed with all the Moorish-Christianity of the…

— Janet Hobhouse

“Religion and revolution reverberated through northern Mexico like the thunder and lightning of its wild and fierce storms. This book reveals the motivation behind…

— Philip Stover

Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few…

— Richard Thornton

The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a…

— Carlos Fuentes

Being from a small farmers' town, going back and forth to Mexico, hours waiting in the line to cross back home and training for…

— Andy Ruiz Jr