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Aztec's predecessor
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toltec
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The term " Toltec " is used in the works of writer Carlos Castaneda to denote a person who was recruited into a band of sorcerers with a tradition that had its origin in the Native American culture of that name. The nagual Juan described the Toltecs to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1787, in reference to an ancient people of Mexico, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) tolteca , literally "people of the tules" (cat-tail reeds).
Usage examples of toltec.
This imaginary antithesis he traces out between the Algonkin and Apalachian tribes, and between the Toltecs of Guatemala and the Aztecs of Mexico.
To solve these knotty points I shall choose for analysis the culture myths of the Algonkins, the Iroquois, the Toltecs of Mexico, and the Aymaras or Peruvians, guided in my choice by the fact that these four families are the best known, and, in many points of view, the most important on the continent.
They must be some of the cave dwellings of the ancient Pueblos, or perhaps as far back as the Toltecs.
If no explanations are given to them before they enter into the left side, they will be great sorcerers but poor seers, as the ancient Toltecs were.
It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age and 'first world', as they call it, lasted 1716 years.
Interestingly, this practically mirrors the situation on the other side of the world in the wars between the Aztecs and the Toltecs, where Mars rooted for the former, and Venus, the latter.