Learning Spanish In Cuernavaca

This web site was Originally called EagleKnights. I changed my email address, because I was getting tons of spam and the renewal notice for the name got lost. By the time I realized that it was past due someone else had grabbed it and put it up for sale trying to make money from my mistake. So I was forced to change the name to ClickonCuernavaca.com.

Eagle Knights

Trying to come up with a name for this Web Site was a challenge. Cuernavaca in all its different endings were taken, Zapata.com is being used by some current revolutionary groups. All the good names were gone. I then thought of using a short version of one of the Gods of the Aztecs, the left handed hummingbird. Huitzilopochtli, but would you believe their is a website called Huitzi.com? But in doing some research on how to spell Huitzilopochtli, I noticed that Huitzilopochtli, was the main God of the Eagle Knights. And, I thought Aha! a great name Eagle Knights.... So we now have the web site Eagle Knights.

The origin of the Eagle Knights is open to much debate; some place it early in history, when the Mexica were still a nomadic tribe and Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) was but a dream in the horizon. It is said that the priest Aacatl separated a group of Mexica and gave them weapons and made them warriors.

These became the leaders of the Mexica (known incorrectly as the Aztecs). All the leaders of the Mexica came from the Eagle Clan.

At an early age all young men joined the army. The army of the Mexica was hierarchical and completely disciplined. Outside of the straight military rank structure there also existed a vast proliferation of military honors, elite orders, and hereditary warrior castes. The best warriors formed the elite orders of Jaguar, Eagle, and other "knights" which the Mexica adopted from the Toltec culture and which fought as special groups. Virtually all commanders and officers for the entire army were chosen from these groups. Ordinary solders could and did rise through valor and ability; they could become recognized warriors, leaders, and even feudal noblemen. And all judges, palace officers, priests, and bureaucrats were usually appointed from among distinguished fighting men. Such appointments were still more accessible to the sons of aristocrats, the pipiltin, but even they had to prove themselves in war.

This is a picture of the head of one of two earthenware sculptures found in the Eagle Knights precinct of the Templo Mayor (Major Temple). The Templo Mayor was the center of religious life in Tenochtitlan (what is now Mexico City). The Eagle Nights precinct consisted of a general hall which is reached by a staircase and several rooms.

Parts of this page are from the book
Fire and blood by T.R. Fehrenbach
Large Picture was on a calendar given out by Telmex
Smaller picture is by Alti Publishing