El itinerario de los tolteca chichimeca

Abstract

This work deals with establishing the locations of the towns visited by the Tolteca-Chichimeca on their migration from the site of “Tollan” to the place “Cholollan”. Given further geographical information, the search for these towns could not only provide their locations in geographical space but also interesting information about the people and their culture, as well as about possible alliances built perhaps with groups sympathetic to their intervening political strategy. According to the general view of the Toltecs as the outgoing groups at the fall of Tula, they migrated to Cholula as the destiny assigned by their tutelary god, resulting in the conquest and eviction of the Olmeca-Xicallanca. This transition has generally been dealt with as a simple matter of a journey through the Valley of Mexico and across the volcanoes. It would seem, however, that this is not the whole story.