CHOLULA

chōlooˈlä or Cholula de Rivadabiathā rēˌvädävˈyä, city (1990 pop. 53,673), Puebla state, E central Mexico. The site of the famous Teocali de Cholula, a pre-Columbian pyramid of great antiquity, the city was an old Toltec center and, when the Spanish came, was an Aztec sacred city devoted to the worship of Quetzalcoatl. Suspecting native insurrection, Hernán Cortés destroyed the city in 1519; from 5,000 to 10,000 people were killed in the massacre of Cholula. Cortés then vowed to build a church for each of the 400 Aztec shrines; 70 were in fact built, one atop the pyramid. The picturesque city remains a place of pilgrimage and attracts many tourists.

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books on: Cholula  - 252 results

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Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Aztecs
Book by David Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, Scott Sessions; University Press of Colorado, 2000
Subjects: Indians Of Mexico--Antiquities, Mexico--Antiquities
1994. Cholula and Mixteca Polychromes: Two Mixteca-Puebla Regional...pp. 79 100. 1995. The Obverse of the Codex of Cholula: Defining the Settlement System in the Kingdom of Cholula. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the...
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Luis Valdez--Early Works: Actos, Bernabe, and Pensamiento Serpentino
Book by Luis Valdez; Arte Publico Press, 1990
Subjects: Mexican Americans--Literary Collections
...CEMPOALA: Dejamelo a mi! Yo me lo echo . CHOLULA: Orale, carnales. Que se traen? Por...Porque nos da la gana! Ora, ponte ! CHOLULA: Ya se juntaron con estos gabachos...Nos gusta estar en el "winning side." CHOLULA: Pos, vamos a ver ! They fight . CHOLULA...
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Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
Book by Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Annabeth Headrick; Westview Press, 2001
Subjects: City Planning--Mexico--History, Indian Architecture--Mexico, Indians Of Mexico--Politics And Government, Indians Of Mexico--Religion, Landscape Assessment--Mexico--History, Mexico--Antiquities, Sacred Space--Mexico--History
...Ignacio. 1939 Exploraciones en la Piramide de Cholula, Pue. 27th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas...Mexico, D.F.: SEP-INAH. 1970a Piramide de Cholula. Proyecto Cholula . Edited by I. Marquina. Serie Investigaciones...
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
Book by William H. Prescott, John Foster Kirk; J. B. Lippincott, 1891
Subjects: Cortes, Hernan--1485-1547, Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
...ATTEMPTED CONVERSION -- AZTEC EMBASSY -- INVITED TO CHOLULA 208 Spaniards enter Tlascala 209 Rejoicings on...214 Embassy from Ixtlilxochitl 214 Deputies from Cholula 214 Invitation to Cholula 215 Prepare to leave Tlascala 215 CHAPTER VI...
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Readings in Hispanic American History
Book by N. Andrew N. Cleven; Ginn, 1927
Subjects: Latin America--History, Latin America--History--Sources
cingo, and Cholula, which, notwithstanding their continual...of the Azteck kings. The small city of Cholula, which Cortez, in his Letters to Charles...the city, on the road which leads from Cholula to Puebla. It is well preserved on the...
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journal articles on: Cholula  - 29 results

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The Barrios of Colonial Tecali: Patronage, Kinship, and Territorial Relations in a Central Mexican Community
Journal article by John K. Chance; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996
Subjects: Mexican native peoples--Social aspects, Nahuas--Social aspects, Social structure--Mexico
...with the Tolteca-Chichimeca of nearby Cholula (Reyes Garcfa 1977:24, 119). Significant...Chichimeca that migrated there from Cholula. Much the saine can be said for Tecali...1978:83) lists eleven calpullis from Cholula that settled in the vicinity of Tecali...
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Molecular Marker Systems for Oenothera Genetics
Journal article by Uwe Rauwolf, Hieronim Golczyk, Jörg Meurer, Reinhold G. Herrmann, Stephan Greiner; Genetics, Vol. 180, 2008
Subjects: Comparative studies, Food supply, Genetic engineering, Genomics, Industrial production
...sub GAU^ I2 of strains chapultepec, cholula, puebla, or toluca cannot be discerned...hybrid ^sup St^albicans*^sup h^cholula with the freely segregating pair 1*4...4 of ^sup St^albicans*^sup h^cholula, must be part of arm 1. Consequently...
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From Azulejos to Zaguanes: The Islamic Legacy in the Built Environment of Hispano-America
Journal article by R. Brooks Jeffery; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Buildings, Buildings--History, Buildings--Religious aspects, Islam, Islam and politics, Islam and politics--Influence, Islam and politics--Social aspects, Islam--Influence, Islam--Social aspects, Mexican history--Analysis, Mexican history--Religious aspects, Mexico--History, Mexico--Religious aspects, North America--History, North America--Religious aspects, North American history--Analysis, North American history--Religious aspects
...Islamic hypostyle mosque form is the Capilla Real in Cholula (1544). Cholula, located southeast of Mexico City, was the center...have been chosen as a model for a native church in Cholula due to that citys very large native congregation...
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Residence Rules and Ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica
Journal article by David Luke Robichaux; Ethnology, Vol. 36, 1997
Subjects: Households--Mexico, Inheritance and succession--Social aspects, Tlaxcala, Mexico--Social aspects
...Guidi (pers. comm. 1988) Nahuas (Cholula) Olivera 1976 Nahuas (Contra, Tlaxcala...common throughout Tlaxcala. In neighboring Cholula in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, Olivera...M. 1976. The Barrios of San Andres Cholula. Essays on Mexican Kinship, eds. H...
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Temptation and Glory in One Pima and Two Aztec Mythologies
Journal article by Donald M. Bahr; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: Vansina, Jan
...made friends with the Spanish. They would help them against the Mexica and the people of Cholula, both enemies of Tlax. 56) There was a big battle at Cholula, lost by that people. 57) Motec. heard of this and feared. He sent a look-alike...
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Making the Most of Short-term Immersion
Magazine article by Ernesto Guerrero; International Educator, Vol. 14, July 2005
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Exchange programs, International education, Puebla Mexico, Study abroad
...from Mexico City, in the smaller town of Cholula, which, in pre-Columbian times, was...walking distance from the campus. Both Cholula and Puebla are beautiful colonial jewels...is not as simple as walking to town. Cholula, the closest town, is not far but it...
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Indian Memories in Two of Mexico's Cities
Magazine article by Habeeb Salloum; Contemporary Review, Vol. 278, January 2001
Subjects: Mexico--Description and travel, Travel--Mexico, Travelers--Mexico
...jokes and historic tales until we reached Cholula, a town of some 80,000 on the outskirts...Our first stop was the Great Pyramid of Cholula, made up of seven superimposed pyramids...excavated. Before the Spanish conquest, Cholula was one of Mexicos largest cities and...
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Mexico's Love-Hate Relationship with Its Big Brother in the North Is Calcifying into Something Rather More Disturbing
Magazine article by Melvyn Bragg; New Statesman, Vol. 126, April 11, 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Relations with the United States, United States--Relations with Mexico
...bigger than the Teotihuacan and even bigger than Cheops, is at Cholula just outside the town of Puebla. The great pyramid was covered...Cortez slaughtered 3,000 of the chief men when he arrived at Cholula, burned the temples - there were supposed to be 365 - and...
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Antony Gormley
Magazine article by John K. Grande; Artforum International, Vol. 32, October 1993
Subjects: Gormley, Antony--Exhibitions, Terra-cotta sculpture--Exhibitions
...nine inches in height charged with the sensual energy of the Cholula Valley, in Mexico, where they originated. Field adopts Joseph...form and how that happens." Baked in oil-fired kilns in Cholula, and made with the Texca family of brick makers out of locally...
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Maps on the Cusp of Change: When Spain's Philip II Sent out a Questionnaire to His New World Domains, Native and Spanish Respondents Had Some Surprising and Revealing Answers
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 54, March 2002
Subjects: Cartography--16th century, Latin America--History, New Spain--Maps, Philip II, King of Spain--Conduct of life, Spain--History
...Guaxtepec, in Morelos state), Augustinian (Culhuacan, near Mexico City), and Franciscan (Cholula, in Puebla state) monasteries. Cholula had a long history of native manuscript painting and is likely the origin of that great masterpiece...
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newspaper articles on: Cholula  - 18 results

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RECORD Savers
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 6, 2010
...To the consumer: This voucher can be used in part payment towards a purchase of 150ml Cholula sauce; offering 30p off Cholula Original Hot Sauce, Cholula Chili Garlic Hot sauce or Cholula Chipotle Hot Sauce. This voucher may not be used against...
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For the Record
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 22, 2008
...of Sutherlin, a daughter. Aug. 15, 2008 Brown - Sara Downey and Brian Brown, of Eugene, a son. Lopez-Cholula - Lucrecia Cholula-Navurro and Hugo Lopez-Sanchez, of Eugene, a daughter. Mullerleile - Alicia and Kevin Mullerleile, of...
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La Ciudad De Los [Beta
Newspaper article; May 16, 2010
...actualmente, Puebla exporta cerszmicas poblanas a todo el mundo. Un paseo interesante es la Zona Arqueolgica de Cholula, con la Pirszmide de Cholula y el Museo del Sitio. En el complejo arqueolgico se observa la superposicin arquitectnica precolombina...
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For the Record
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 3, 2007
...Eugene, a daughter. Sapienza-Jones - Julie and Larry Sapienza-Jones, of Eugene, a son. Terrazas-Cholula, Jr. - Bigsedia Cholula Navarro and Gerardo Terrazas Accuedo, of Eugene, a son. March 27, 2007 Acuna - Sarah and Abraham Acuna...
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For the Record
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 19, 2010
...2010 Joseph P. Anaya II, 43, and Sheree V. Smith, 39, both of Springfield. Hugo Lopez-Sanchez, 26, and Lucrecia Cholula-Navarro, 28, both of Springfield. Richard G. Olkowski, 33, and Carol A. Voze, 47, both of Eugene. Christopher M...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cholula  - 8 results

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Cholula
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHOLULA choloo la or Cholula de Rivadabia choloo la tha re vadav ya, city (1990 pop. 53,673...Puebla state, E central Mexico. The site of the famous Teocali de Cholula, a pre-Columbian pyramid of great antiquity, the city was an...
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Spanish American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...forms coexisted with romanticism as in the poetry of Jose Maria Heredia of Cuba. His En el teocalli de Cholula in the temple-pyramid of Cholula (1820) is the first Spanish American romantic poem. Among the early romanticists were the young intellectuals...
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Puebla , City, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...industries. The city is noted for the colored tiles that decorate its buildings and numerous churches, as well as those of nearby Cholula. The cathedral, built between 1552 and 1649, is one of the finest in Mexico; the theater, constructed in 1790, is said...
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Toltec
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...see Tula ). In architecture and the arts they were masters; they were influenced by Teotihuacan and the Olmec culture. Cholula is considered to be a Toltec site. Toltec civilization was materially far advanced. They smelted metals, and their stonework...
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Quetzalcoatl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Montezuma viewed the Spanish invaders as the returning hosts of Quetzalcoatl. There is a great pyramid in honor of the deity at Cholula , and the sky-serpent motif in the mosaics at Mitla probably represents Quetzalcoatl. The famous Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
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