Quinametzin
Also known as: Quinames
Basic account
Giant race of a previous sun who built great structures and fell to divine order.
Account
The Quinametzin are the giants of central Mexican tradition who inhabited an earlier world-age and built the great structures the Aztecs found already standing. Teotihuacan and Cholula were attributed to them.
Motifs
- The people who came before
- The giant as builder
- Bones offered as evidence
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What is disputed
How much of the recorded Quinametzin material is pre-conquest Nahua tradition and how much is colonial synthesis is not resolvable with confidence.
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Sources
- Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Relaciones and Historia de la nacion chichimeca (late 16th-early 17th c.)
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