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La Malinche appears in the Amazon Prime series Hernán. She is portrayed by Ishbel Bautista. Malintzin: The Story of an Enigma. Documentary of 2019 based on the life of La Malinche. La Malinche is referenced in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History. In the series, she is portrayed as a double agent working to protect Aztec ...
Between 400 and 800 Spanish killed, drowned, or captured; around 4,000 Tlaxcaltecs killed or captured. Unknown. La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night") was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were ...
The fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was an important event in the Spanish conquest of the empire. It occurred in 1521 following extensive negotiations between local factions and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. He was aided by La Malinche, his interpreter and companion, and by thousands of indigenous allies ...
Cortés had two interpreters : the aforementioned Malinche — a woman from Olutla, nowadays Veracruz, who had been sold into slavery and could speak Nahuatl and Mayan — and Gerónimo de Aguilar ...
Jun. 4—Both revered and reviled, La Malinche was an enigmatic figure whose legacy has inspired controversy, legend and adulation since the 16th century. Depending on your point of view, the ...
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire is the subject of an opera, La Conquista (2005) and of a set of six symphonic poems, La Nueva España (1992–99) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero . Cortés's conquest has been depicted in numerous television documentaries.
Chiapas. Guatemala. Petén. Mesoamerica portal. v. t. e. La Xtabay ( Spanish pronunciation: [la iʃ.taˈβaj]) is a Yucatec Maya folklore tale about a demonic femme fatale who preys upon men in the Yucatán Peninsula. [1] She is said to dwell in the forest to lure men to their deaths with her incomparable beauty. [2]
La Llorona. La Llorona ( Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; 'the Crying Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.