Did the Aztecs Prophesy the Spanish would Come?

Darian West
6 min readJun 13, 2020

The Spanish conquest of the “New World” is filled with major historical events. Were those events so monumental that they were foretold in prophecy?

Fifty years after Cortés’s infamous encounter with the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma II, Bernardino de Sahagún recorded Moctezuma’s words to Cortés in the Florentine Codex as follows:

You have graciously come on

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