On December 9, 1531, a 57-year-old Mexican Indian farmer by the name of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec who had sure to Christianity, was minding his own company as he walked to prompt daybreak lump, quick by the incline set as Tepeyac, along with his cooperative spirit and Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).
Juan Diego was instinctive in 1474 in the calpulli or borough of Tlayacac in Cuauhtitlan, which was regulate in 1168 by Nahua tribesmen and overwhelmed by the Aztec lord Axayacatl in 1467, and was sited 20 kilometres (14 miles) north of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City).
Tepeyac had for centuries been of meaning to the the world of what is now called Mexico - the Aztecs and their descendants - to the same degree it was the site of a shrine to the goddess Tonantzin.
Tonantzin (pictured above; culminate toh nawn tseen), accomplice with the circle goddess Coatlique (possibly cognate with the Judaeo-Christian Eve), was worshipped in the Frosty Solstice celebrations at approximately this time of court. Tonantzin wore a white robe interior in timetabled and seashells, which garlanded her as the goddess promenaded with the people attending worship and was ceremonially killed in a montage rich of the appear death of the sun of winter. The goddess was as well set by the name of Ilamatecuhtli ('a magnanimous old human being) and Cozcamiauh ('a necklace of maize vegetation).
As Juan Diego walked to lump (some sources say he was walking to the shrine of the goddess), he heard space music and the association of deficit wings. Only this minute, a maiden appeared to him, virtuous in the show off of an Aztec princess, a lissom charisma who, native tongue to him in his environmental Nahuatl lingua franca, introduced herself to the stunned peasant as Maria, the Close relative of God...
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