| Summary: | Parte 3:; "The Chichimeca Toltec History is a document prepared in the town of Quauhtinchan and presented as judicial evidence before the Spanish authorities in the framework of an ancient land dispute with the neighboring town of Tepeaca that began in 1533, and was maintained with appeals from the various sentences arose, such as that of 1547. The document was called in the Nahuatl text as a xiuhtlapouallior "count of years", due to the chronological sequence, year by year, in the monitoring of the events that are intertwined in the narrative. In the structure of the document, pictographs and texts in Nahuatl converge in a complementary and enriching process. There are iconographic data that are only understandable from the texts, but others were not recovered in the alphabetical narrative, which is why the image is revealing. In this edition - which will be presented in three special issues, this is the third and final part - different expository methods were used for the alphabetical texts. The contents were synthesized through explanatory paraphrases and in order to achieve a simple and fluid reading, we sought to maintain narrative continuity between the episodes. always respecting the historical context that contains the original ideas and meaning. When pertinent, opinions and comments were added that complement and reinforce the explanation of the texts. Likewise, boxes and graphs were inserted that offer expanded information on the topics addressed. In this third volume of the Chichimeca Toltec History - in specials 107 and 108 of the magazine, parts 1 and 2 were offered - the "Anales de Quauhtinchan" are presented, in which the quauhtinchantlaca version and the totomiuaque version are clearly differentiated. A clear subdivision can be seen in the narrative structure of the Quauhtinchan story from the conquest of the territory carried out by the Tlatelolcas. In this part, the intervention of another hand in the treatment of the images is recognized, and the progressive abandonment of pictographs, given the predominance of alphabetic writing and the type of episodes reported. Likewise, it is observed, at least from folio 44r, that blank spaces were left, most likely to be dedicated to the calendrical cartridges and images in indigenous graphics. For this reason, the idea that it is an unfinished document is reiterated." -- Provided by publisher
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