The Fair God or the last of the 'Tzins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Lew.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dinslaken : anboco, 2016.

Summary:

Fernando De Alva, a noble Tezcucan, flourished, we are told, in the beginning of the sixteenth century. He was a man of great learning, familiar with the Mexican and Spanish languages, and the hieroglyphics of Anahuac. Ambitious to rescue his race from oblivion, and inspired by love of learning, he collected a library, availed himself of his knowledge of picture-writing, became master of the songs and traditions, and, in the Castilian language, composed books of merit.It was scarcely possible that his labors should escape the researches of Mr. Prescott, who, with such incomparable genius, has given the world a history of the Conquest of Mexico. From him we have a criticism upon the labors of the learned Fernando, from which the following paragraph is extracted."Iztlilzochitl's writings have many of the defects belonging to his age. He often crowds the page with incidents of a trivial and sometimes improbable character. The improbability increases with the distance of the period; for distance, which diminishes objects to the natural eye, exaggerates them to the mental. His chronology, as I have more than once noticed, is inextricably entangled. He has often lent a too willing ear to traditions and reports which would startle the more sceptical criticism of the present time. Yet there is an appearance of good faith and simplicity in his writings, which may convince the reader that, when he errs, it is from no worse cause than the national partiality. And surely such partiality is excusable in the descendant of a proud line, shorn of its ancient splendors, which it was soothing to his own feelings to revive againthough with something more than their legitimate lustreon the canvas of history.

Contents:

Intro

THE FAIR GOD OR, THE LAST OF THE 'TZINS

NOTE BY THE AUTHOR.

INTRODUCTORY.

BOOK ONE.

CHAPTER I. OUR MOTHER HAS A FORTUNE WAITING US YONDER.

CHAPTER II. QUETZAL', THE FAIR GOD

CHAPTER III. A CHALLENGE.

CHAPTER IV. TENOCHTITLAN AT NIGHT.

CHAPTER V THE CHILD OF THE TEMPLE.

CHAPTER VI. THE CÛ OF QUETZAL', AND MUALOX, THE PABA.

CHAPTER VII. THE PROPHECY ON THE WALL.

CHAPTER VIII. A BUSINESS MAN IN TENOCHTITLAN.

CHAPTER IX. THE QUESTIONER OF THE MORNING.

CHAPTER X. GOING TO THE COMBAT.

CHAPTER XI. THE COMBAT.

CHAPTER XII. MUALOX AND HIS WORLD.

CHAPTER XIII. THE SEARCH FOR QUETZAL'.

BOOK TWO.

CHAPTER I. WHO ARE THE STRANGERS?

CHAPTER II. A TEZCUCAN LOVER

CHAPTER III THE BANISHMENT OF GUATAMOZIN

CHAPTER IV GUATAMOZIN AT HOME

CHAPTER V NIGHT AT THE CHALCAN'S

CHAPTER VI THE CHINAMPA

CHAPTER VII COURT GOSSIP

CHAPTER VIII GUATAMOZIN AND MUALOX

CHAPTER IX A KING'S BANQUET

CHAPTER X THE 'TZIN'S LOVE

CHAPTER XI THE CHANT

BOOK THREE.

CHAPTER I THE FIRST COMBAT

CHAPTER II THE SECOND COMBAT

CHAPTER III THE PORTRAIT

CHAPTER IV. THE TRIAL

BOOK FOUR.

CHAPTER I THE KING GIVES A TRUST TO HUALPA

CHAPTER II. THE KING AND THE 'TZIN.

CHAPTER III LOVE ON THE LAKE

CHAPTER IV THE KING DEMANDS A SIGN OF MUALOX

CHAPTER V THE MASSACRE IN CHOLULA

CHAPTER VI THE CONQUEROR WILL COME

CHAPTER VII MONTEZUMA GOES TO MEET CORTES

CHAPTER VIII THE ENTRY

BOOK FIVE.

CHAPTER I PUBLIC OPINION

CHAPTER II A MESSAGE FROM THE GODS

CHAPTER III HOW ILLS OF STATE BECOME ILLS OF SOCIETY

CHAPTER IV. ENNUYÉ IN THE OLD PALACE.

CHAPTER V ALVARADO FINDS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

CHAPTER VI THE IRON CROSS

CHAPTER VII THE CHRISTIANS IN THE TOILS

CHAPTER VIII THE IRON CROSS COMES BACK TO ITS GIVER.

CHAPTER IX. TRULY WONDERFUL.-A FORTUNATE MAN HATH A MEMORY.

CHAPTER X HOW THE IRON CROSS CAME BACK

CHAPTER XI THE CHRISTIAN TAKES CARE OF HIS OWN

BOOK SIX.

CHAPTER I THE LORD HUALPA FLEES HIS FORTUNE

CHAPTER II WHOM THE GODS DESTROY THEY FIRST MAKE MAD

CHAPTER III THE PUBLIC OPINION MAKES WAY

CHAPTER IV THE 'TZIN'S FAREWELL TO QUETZAL'

CHAPTER V THE CELLS OF QUETZAL' AGAIN

CHAPTER VI LOST IN THE OLD CÛ.

CHAPTER VII HOW THE HOLY MOTHER HELPS HER CHILDREN

CHAPTER VIII THE PABA'S ANGEL

CHAPTER IX LIFE IN THE PABA'S WORLD

CHAPTER X THE ANGEL BECOMES A BEADSWOMAN

CHAPTER XI. THE PUBLIC OPINION PROCLAIMS ITSELF.-BATTLE.

BOOK SEVENTH.

CHAPTER I THE HEART CAN BE WISER THAN THE HEAD

CHAPTER II THE CONQUEROR ON THE CAUSEWAY AGAIN

CHAPTER III LA VIRUELA

CHAPTER IV. MONTEZUMA A PROPHET.-HIS PROPHECY.

CHAPTER V HOW TO YIELD A CROWN

CHAPTER VI IN THE LEAGUER

CHAPTER VII IN THE LEAGUER YET

CHAPTER VIII THE BATTLE OF THE MANTAS

CHAPTER IX. OVER THE WALL,-INTO THE PALACE.

CHAPTER X THE WAY THROUGH THE WALL

CHAPTER XI BATTLE IN THE AIR

CHAPTER XII. IN THE INTERVAL OF THE BATTLE-LOVE.

CHAPTER XIII THE BEGINNING OF THE END

CHAPTER XIV THE KING BEFORE HIS PEOPLE AGAIN

CHAPTER XV THE DEATH OF MONTEZUMA

CHAPTER XVI ADIEU TO THE PALACE

CHAPTER XVII. THE PURSUIT BEGINS.

CHAPTER XVIII LA NOCHE TRISTE

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ISBN:

9783736414464

3736414463

OCLC:

1112423004