General feedback

I’m not actually Mexican; I’m moreso just an American kid raised by a man who spend some formative years in Mexico. That said, seeing such genuine passion and appreciation for mexican history and culture made me cry when I found this site. I love this place, you guys are awesome.

I was raised by the 2000s-era World Wide Web: forums, flash games, widgets, funny imageboards where you’d wait 5 minutes for pictures to load... and this website just brought me all the way back. The best part is that it’s such a fantastic anthropological resource for a wonderful culture. On behalf of Aztec descendants worldwide, thank you for hosting this beautiful oasis. It’s one of the last relics of the pre-commercial web, so please never “modernize” it; I’m sure that many web development professionals (myself included) would be happy to work on search engine optimization and mobile functionality completely free of charge. Mexicolore, we love you!

I love this website , it’s so cute and helpful

I’m currently a student Michigan State University and I’ve been using your website as a source for a project I’m working on as a student intern, centering around Mexican-American identity in natural resource spaces. All of the sources you provide have helped me greatly, I hope you’re all doing great and that this website keeps on educating people around the world :)

How did Aztec poets write their songs? Did they arrange music in compositions like composers?

How many gods did Aztec witches and sorcerers believe in? Did they only believe in one deity or many others?

Did the Aztec emperors have names for their palaces?

I love you site. Thanks for your dedication to bringing all Mexica history to light. One thing that I found bothersome is an image which states “Malinche” is interpreting for Cortes. You most likely are aware that wasn’t her name and that the made up word Malinche has become derogatory. Maybe it’s time to call her by her name Malintzin. Thanks for your consideration.

Mexicolore is amazing. I really didn’t think anyone would respond, but you did. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with me. I wish all our experts could be as open as Mexicolore, and help people like me so that their research and expertise could be passed on to the next generation. We must never forget our history.

Hello! I’m currently working on having our engagement ring made and have been using ur site as a reference. I can’t send on this site but ur maya geometric designs page has been a great help. For context… my gf is Honduran SPS and one of the happiest moments I’ve ever seen her was in the CDMX anthro museum when she saw a statue of a Maya king and was so excited that the statue had her nose. I’d like to incorporate Maya designs into the ring, but don’t know how to correlate the patterns to what they mean or what they conveyed. Is there any way we could correspond or talk? Thanks for any help, Dave

I know your website well and have used it frequently in my own teaching. It is a fantastic resource.

‘... your MAGNIFICENT webpage’

I am a first generation Mexican American, and I’m in love with the Mexica culture , i don’t know much of my past ancestors and don’t really have family around to ask , if there any recommendations?

I love your website so much!! It has helped me so much with school projects, as well as learning more about where my dad is from, because living in Canada I’m not learning much. :,)

I wondered the point in writing a thank you, as you’ve gotten many already, but I wanted to express my personal gratefulness. Obviously, this website has taught me so much, but it also gave me hope I can find a way to pursue what I love. I’m not sure if you respond to these, but I was also wondering if this is an official career for you, if you’ve managed to live off doing work like this. You guys are all doing beautiful work, thank you.

Your absolute gem of a site has been a WEALTH of information and a complete joy to explore. Thank you, for the delight and the opportunity to better understand a world and culture so outside of my own. Thank you, most sincerely.

Mexicolore, you are my #2 favourite website in the entire website behind Wikipedia.
I find your work super impressive and inspiring. I wish more people had access to your site as well. Thanks for all the hard work, SO many people are not aware of the realities of Mesoamerica.
When I was around 15 I was taught that human sacrifice and cannibalism were colonialist myths born out of prejudice against the Nahuas.
So many curiosities of mine have been fulfilled on here.
Rating is 4/5 stars
(Website user interface could use an update)

I love you all for informing the world of the beautiful historical Mexican culture! Although, the website is very outdated, cluttered and a bit unusable in the mobile version... as a web developer myself, i am willing to completely upgrade your website to a more organized and simpler and accessible format all for FREE, as a way to show my appreciation!

I admire all the work you and others have devoted to Mexicolore!

Love all this knowledge just being free in the internet and hope more people discover This site.
Will the site have an update? I feel like it’s being swept under the rug by Google due to its ancient (pun intended) web design.

I am familiar with the Mexicolore website, which is a terrific resource, but did not realize the extent of the work you do, which is tremendously impressive. Many congratulations and many thanks for that important work.

I love your website and all the information you gather. Would love if you had a newsletter or some feature highlighting updates and latest information (other than Twitter!). Hasta luego desde México!

I’m university student from Japan. I’m researching about indigenous in Mexico and this website is really helpful. I only found a few resources in Japanese website. and finally I reached this website. So many interesting article is here. Thank you!
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from japan.

I am eternally grateful for the Mexicolore website, some of which I used for my dissertation! It’s a remarkably useful and friendly resource.

I greatly admire Mexicolore...

Your educational website and its numerous resources are really brilliant. Many of the most distinguished scholars in the world contribute.

Mexicolore is honestly such an invaluable resource for both beginners and advanced learners...

This page is so wonderful! I like to use it for a resource and I’m in the US in a school. Thank you so much!

When will you be updating your great Flash player interactives now flash doesn’t work?

Thank you for the work you do. Love your site. I am on it almost every day when ever I need a reference. It’s the best thing out there. Keep it up!

I think this site has some really good information, but I just think it needs to be freshend up. It looks like the site hasn’t been updated since 2005. That is the only thing I think should happen so the site looks better. Other than that, I love this site! I will continue to use it for history class

I appreciate and really like this site so much! Frequently I recommend my students to start to work on a particular subject by reading first what there is on Mexicolore. You are doing such a great and marvelous job!

AZTECS

I’ve really enjoyed browsing the Mexicolore website. What a wonderful project!

I feel like a boy constantly discovering secrets at your website. Can’t wait to see what new heights Mexicolore achieves next.

I’m not an expert on the conquest of Tenochtitlan but I bicycled the Route of Cortes by piecing together together my own map by referencing historical accounts and a general outline of the route published in an issue of National Geographic. As far as I can tell, no one else has ever completed this route by bicycle. Even though the route is associated with the disagreeable name of Cortes, the route itself offers a portal into understanding the unbridgeable gap between the Spanish and Aztec cultures. It’s a shame that the trail is ignored and remains completely unmarked to this day. I certainly appreciated discovering the many beautiful towns and cities I passed through. It’s a part of Mexico that few American tourists ever visit. Marking the trail might bring more tourism to the region and possibly a better understanding of Mexican history. It certainly did for me. Let me know if I can be of any help in providing the route that I took. Nice work! Charles
P.S. The article I wrote about my bicycle adventure can be found at bikegringo.com

Not enough words to describe your magnificent work. As an educator, I can say the articles and readings are well-documented, pleasant and enjoyable. I am from Mexico City and I feel honored by your work. Felicidades.

Hello. Every day I passed by your van and tonight I’ve decided to have a look to the site you advertise in the van. Great content! But perhaps time to update the site and have a 2020 facelift :)
Regards.

Hello thanks for an informative website. I was wondering if you knew what type of temporary shelters the Aztec or other Mesoamerican native cultures used, such as tents etc when traveling or conducting long term military operations? Thanks.

Thank you for creating such a great and informative website for students to learn about Mesoamerica.

Thanks for the fantastic work you’re doing with Mexicolore - I find the website very informative and entertaining.

You and your team started a wonderful platform for the dissemination of Mesoamerican civilisations and have achieved a great success teaching young students and the general public through your website. You and Graciela must feel very proud of this great achievement.

I want to buy a genuine Aztec death whistile, why are they so hard to find on the internet. I don’t want a plastic 3D piece of junk.

Thank you for all of your tireless work in bringing this material to the world.

Hello, I am trying to find the video on the sun/moon with the salamander for my art class, but do not see a link anywhere. Thank you!

Thank you so much for your amazing videoconference. You were so wonderful and the kids loved you! I so appreciate the interactive lesson you provided my lucky 4th graders. I hope we get a chance to do it again. You and Graciela are a treasure for the children of the world!

I am fascinated that this site exists and in Britain of all places. What an amazing phenomenon to see such interest in my amazing culture from far across the world. I say this as a mestizo of Mexican and European/English genetic background and a lifetime student of MesoAmerican PreColumbian history and culture. As my mother was Mexican, I have traveled to various places in Mexico all of my life even though I am an American. Your site is wonderful in that it teaches about and somewhat resurrects a culture long ago destroyed by Spanish invaders. Although there are facets of the Mexica culture, such as their religion, that I abhor yet understand, the loss of their culture, like that of the Maya and Inca, were a loss to the world. Your site and interest in my culture is wonderful, and I hope that you keep up the great work that you are doing. Thank you!

Hello! I absolutely love your site, and reading all the articles about Tenochtitlan left me with a question I just can’t get off my mind- were the 3 causeways in and out of Tenochtitlan paved? Some illustration seem to insinuate they were, others not. Also- were each causeway one solid thing or was each divided vertically along the middle into 2 halves? Would love to know learn! Thank you so much for all of these amazing online resources!

There’s nothing about the God Huehuecoyotl.

Love this site. Using it for my lecture on Tenochtitlan for a Senior Citizen audience.

I am very grateful - your website definitely portrays a positive image of the Aztecs, something that they really needed, what with all the false Spanish propaganda. Many thanks from me and other people who value their Aztec heritage above all else. Your site is a great help for us who wish to stay in contact with our culture. Your site is awesome!

We have the National collection of Choisya. Who can help me with the uses of Choisya as tea, in chocolate milk and other uses. I’ve heard and read about the use of choisya by the Aztecs, but are searching for more information and recipes. Thank you for your answer.
Geert

Greetings,
I’m a native Maya and I still speak one of the Maya languages that is Mam. I would like to get one of the balls to play the ball game. Where can I find them and how much would it cost?
Thank you so much and Chjonte tiy!

Hi guys, great site and pleased to have discovered you. I’ve been interested in Aztec/Mayan culture for a little while now, and having reproduced a version of the Sun Stone, I’ve been somewhat stumped by the depiction of ‘Atl’ in the central round and would like some clarification as to what is actually being depicted. The usual depictions of the symbol Atl are straight forward, yet they don’t describe the depiction found in the final of the four ‘suns’ surrounding the central deity, and I would like to give an accurate (or as accurate as possible) representation of Atl as shown there. Any help from you regarding the symbols, jewellery, artefacts and articles shown there would be much appreciated. I can’t seem to find any consistent graphic representations so I’m having to ‘shoot from the hip’, which I’d rather not do if I can help it. Thanks.

Hi i have some confusion about story of “Aztec sacrifice a culhuacan princess”. How could Aztec sacrifice a culhuacan princess meanwhile their first king’s mother is a culhuacan princess, or is the story of culhuacan princess’s sacrifice is a myth? many thanks

How did the Aztecs count the centuries (52 year periods)? Apparently the Maya had a system but I don’t see how the Aztecs did this from the information I have found. Thanks.

Please eliminate the pop-up to download Flash Player that pops up constantly. It is very annoying and totally unnecessary. And many thanks for your wonderful site.

I really love the work that you guys do on here! It’s really comprehensive and complete and you guys break it down really well. I love that you guys answer questions from people, things that honestly I never would have thought to ask but are such great questions. I’ve been learning about Aztec history for a while and I’ve got to say you guys are definitely the best resource I’ve found for this stuff. And to top it all off you guys clearly love doing what you’re doing so keep it up!

I have carefully read most of the Aztec modules on your website. Although the target readers of my next book must have some background in anthropology, I have found the Mexicolore narration so clear and simple that I have used some segments related in the social structure of the Aztec in the manuscript of my next book. Of course, I have given full credit to Mexicolore.

I had a look at the few images of the Aztecs. Why do they look nothing like the people that were enslaved and that traveled through the West indies. The Aztecs were described to be people of copper to very dark skinned people with short hair and dreads.

Can u guys send me more info on how the Aztecs used their pottery? That would be great if you could send me the info ????

This is the best website for feedback on my project in class as a 59 year old i gotta say its amazin

I’d like to be in touch, can y’all email me? These CNC files could/should be used by others, etc. This is one of the very few reproductions of the Stone that includes the edge, and, did I say precise?

Mexicolore is perhaps the most complete, detailed, active and *useful* website I have found for my art-for-the-blind project, TouchThisArt. I am amazed, and a bit chagrined that here in the US, we non-Mexican folks have not built something better, given we’re so close. But, with your help, I built a rather precise 2.5 Solar Stone, etc.

I’ve been reading notes of this website and I’m afraid to say that a lot of information treated as facts here are a lie. You have been promoting all lies told by the Spanish that came to invade my born land, Mexihco. (Ahmo cualli) it’s not good, but It’s not your fault, are the lies written as history by Spanish Invaders. The only thing that I recognize you is that you have a genuine interest about my ancestors and all his knowledge and history. Please, stop misinformate people. Ma motonal tlanextica. (May your light be shinny).

Thank you for the rich information on ancient Aztec culture. I was wondering if there are any pictures or sketches of how a woman who died in childbirth would be dressed in warrior garb. If you know of any that come close, could you please direct me to them? Thank you!

Incredble resource of rare information you have here, kudos to you all for your hard work.

It is always a pleasure to collaborate with the Mexicolore website, since I really esteem the wonderful job you are doing.

I’ve just discovered your site and I think it’s absolutely wonderful. Thank you for your contributions to education.

Whats the symbol for “battle” or Necalli?

Please know that I’ve recommended your site to teachers, and all have been over the moon at the wealth of information.

Congratulations on making Mexicolore such an excellent website, packed with valuable and entertainingly educational data. I enjoy perusing it.

I love this website! Super helpful for history.

Your session is amazing, you really get the kids involved and I am sure they will retain far more information about the Aztec, Maya, and Mexico than they would through regular classes. We were really impressed with all your detailed props and costumes (and the energy you have to get the kids involved); it was a real pleasure to see Mexicolore in action!

The history of Mexicolore is a story almost as good as that of the Aztecs!

congratulations on professional work, I am Mexican profesora of anthropology and something very important thing to talk about indigenous culture, is education, values, religious magical conception and love for Mother Earth.
There are rituals that have remained for centuries work with traditional midwives and doctors

Lovely facts!

I really love your website as it really goes in depth on the subject of Mexico and the Aztecs. As a teacher and writer, this has got to be the best source of information on the subject for kids.

I teach high school English in Houston, Texas, and have been using your website for several years as a resource for my units on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican language, literature, and culture. I have taught Mexican-American students from the barrios of Houston, plus immigrant students from Mexico and Central America, and try to make our class as culturally relevant as possible, so your site has been invaluable. It is amazing how my students pride and self-esteem has increased as a result of my innovative curriculum that makes their history central to their own studies. A big thank you to all of you for making my work easier and more informed.

You published 2 images of paintings made by Luis Covarrubias. You should put the propper credits.

you section “the universe was woven like a mat” in the kids section is not working - please can you send me the relevant information as my daughter is doing a project on Aztec weaving

On the website, I didn’t see any mention of Chia seeds in the diet of Aztecs. It is promoted today that the Aztecs ate chia seeds. What gives?

Excellent site. Please can you tell me the best article you have on the decoding of the Guadalupe tilma. Thanks.

Love your site. Amazing. I have a question for the experts. How long did it take the Spaniards to bring the enormous Aztec Temple down after the conquest?

Love the site and was hoping to find the original source for the 4-movement image on the discussion of the war drum. I already link to your site on my website for a forthcoming book on a Nahua community: www.indigenousmexicobook.com I may want to use that symbol in the book. Thanks for any help with this.

Love the site! So much great information and easy to navigate. I’m a graduate student in musicology, researching music in the religious practices of central Mexico during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Mexicolore is an excellent site that serves an important purpose and I wonder how we could have lived without it in previous years... You have managed to make the Aztecs fun to study, which is a great achievement in itself. But even more important Mexicolore has introduced students (and many others) to a different way of being human. I take this to be a major goal of my own field of anthropology and congratulate you on your success on bringing it off so elegantly.

What an amazing website! I’m working on an Aztec-inspired novel, and would love to publish it one day. It would be wonderful to be able to one day do it through your website. Thank you for making this information accessible to all.

Love your website!

Real cool animation! Very intuitive and highly educational which makes it easy even for adults like me! Thank you to the webmaster and friends for your very appreciated efforts. Greetings from America!

I have not been able to find any place that makes Cactin and Tilmahtin, I would really want to see one come up. I know they wouldn’t be in high demand, but i’m willing to pay extra for authentic pieces of my own people’s cultural clothing.

Come dice il sig. Ricardo Esponda troppo si ignora e spesso si danno giudizi su ciò che non si conosce. Basta solo un po’ di cultura.

Gradirei che qualcuno si mettesse in contatto con me per parlare ed approfondire il mio amore per il grande popolo Mexica. Grazie.

I am trying to find a quote I found earlier and I can’t find it! The adress is http://mexicolore.co.uk/index.php?&one=azt&two=ask&tab=ans&id=16 PLEASE HELP!!!!

I greatly admire your website and have used aspects of it in my own research.

I want to congratulate you and your team again for doing such a great cultural job about the Aztecs, Mesoamerica and even Mexico today. Through your website you are educating the youth of today to be more analytical, enthusiastic and open-minded about so-called Non-Western cultures that in many aspects were more refined than “Western-Eurocentric” peoples.

You have a wonderful insight to address questions raised by children who somehow consistently manage to focus on the most interesting, important, and consequential aspects of Mesoamerican research. We older guys don’t hold a candle to them. Please keep up the great work.

Definitely a great resource!!!
One recommendation, it would be helpful to have the date the article was originated (or the last modified date) included along with the articles. Specifically for citation purposes.
Thanks!

I am a librarian and information scientist by training, and I marvel at your ability to assemble such a wealth of age-appropriate materials for school children and their teachers. Mexicolore is also a trusted venue for the scholarly greats to parade their stuff, in a refreshingly open format. Keep up the excellent work!

Thank you again for inviting me to participate in your Mexicolore website. I have heard nothing but wonderful things from those colleagues who have seen it.

Mexicolore has been a great help to me regarding symbology and mythology references in my work. Well done.

I have to say again how fabulous your resources on the Aztecs are. I have been using your site regularly in the planning of a class I teach called “Surviving the Conquest: Aztecs and Mayas in Colonial Mexico.” I also direct students to it for reading assignments. Great work - keep it up!

I am familiar with your website and actually encourage my students to use it for their projects in my Mesoamerican Archaeology class, you do a great job! It is a fabulous site...

I love your website! I shall be having my students use it to increase their knowledge of the Aztecs! I will bequeath this website to all my social science compadres.

I am the Supreme Historical researcher for the International Order of Quetzalcoatl (see our website at www.supremeq.com) and I am astounded that I have not come across your website previously during my research. What a magnificent contribution to education about Mesoamerican culture and history. The god Quetzalcoatl was long known in Mesoamerican deiology and iconolgy long before the Mexicas, the Toltecs and even the Teotihuacanos. In q’iche Maya he was known as kULKULCAN. Please favor us with your research about Quetzalcoatl and feature him as a God of the Month. I would be glad to assist with the research which I have assembled from numerous books and websites.

Please know that I have recommended your site to many in the field of education here. It is easily the best source going! I am so very glad that my query inspired a new feature for your excellent site!

This site is FANTASTIC! I’m currently doing a history assignment on Aztec artefacts, and I got really useful information here!

We have found that the Mexicolore site has been an incredibly useful source of information about the Aztecs as we have been working on the exhibition [major exhibition on Aztec culture in association with INAH at New Zealand’s national museum, autumn 2013].

I stumbled across your amazing website while researching the Aztec broad sword. I am a Mexican-American whose parents were born/raised in Mexico. I have visited Mexico frequently over the years, especially Yucatan. I have had a life-long fascination with the culture and customs of the indigenous people of Mexico and Mesoamerica. I must xtend my appreciation and gratitude for the educational service you provide the world on behalf of these unique ancient people.

I think your site is great, and the images are wonderful. Thanks again for helping our field by providing solid information for the academic study and appreciation of ancient Americans!

I loved it until I got to the last section where I heard about the people using plants to get stoned. I cannot use it with my 6th grade class because of that.

hello this is aryan you came to our school i am looking at the website it is amazing. You came to orley farm schoolo i just want to say thank you

Mexicolore is a website I would highly recommend to anyone interested in Aztec culture who wants to learn more about the people and how they lived in ancient Mexico. Keep up the good work Ian.

I am a student teacher from Ireland and on researching information for my theme on the Aztecs I came across your amazing site. Thank you for all the wonderful information and resources you have provided, it is so helpful and I am really looking forward to teaching this theme now!

I am very impressed by your website! It is replete with fascinating information and is presented in an interesting and amusing format. I am an American of Mexican descent and find pre-hispanic civilizations, namely the Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs, etc. of immense interest. Your website is a window into the glorious past of ancient Mexico and my ancestors. Thank you! Tlazocamati!

Thank you for creating and maintaining this wonderful site.
It is amazing, extremely informative and diverse.
I’m finding myself consulting your site a lot, doing my research and writing about Nahua cultures in general.
I also put a link to Mexicolore on the top of the recommended links on my blog as I think as many people as possible should be aware of this wonderfully informative and user-friendly site.
Thank you so very much for your great work.

I enjoyed reading about (and applaud) what your group is doing to bring youth to a more knowledgeable and appreciative level of multicultural awareness.

I found your website to be most informative and well organized, and to your credit, is the best source of Aztec information on the web.

this a great site, really good and some great teaching pieces, I have used the site to design and build an aztec themed garden for a BBC competion in the uk, once its finished (June) I will try to send some pictures over. your site has been a great help, top work!

Brilliant ive never known so much

Your website continues to be a wealth of fascinating information - I commend you and Graciela for your wonderful contributions to the field of Aztec studies!!

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) wonderful idea for children to learn!!

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) Beautifully done! You must teach me how to do animated work. Please! Please!
By the way: the term “Aztec” wasn’t used until some time during the XIX century. The original term is “Mexica” (pronounced “Meshica”)

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) Great translation. And I seem to have heard the same story from every civilisation.

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) A great job and fun. Congrats, Ian. BTW what came out as the most valuable Aztec possession?
Bernard

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) Very encouraging to see that after so many years the cultures of Mesoamerica are finally taught to children in the U.S. My parents, both activists in the Chicano Movement encouraged this type of cultural material to be taught in classrooms. They would be pleased with your work. The medium is entertaining and educational. Congratulations!

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) This is really nicely done, I’m sending the link to friends with kids.

(Re: Tec’s new codex animation page) Very entertaining and it made me resolve to be good!

I love this website!! But after reading the page on Aztec Crime Thrillers & Simon Levack’s books, I just wanted to ask if you had seen the Aztec Crime/Fantasy series by Aliette de Bodard which are a good read. If you want more details her website is: http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/

This web site has opened a window to the real Mexico that only those who have lived there, get to know ( and not everyone).
Thanks for bringing an Ancient, cultural, beautiful Mexico to the world.

I think the Mexicolore project is a worthy endeavor that really benefits the public.

Saludos desde Brisbane Australia. Por favor visite este canal de Youtube. http://youtu.be/fi9VJRYQmOk

Hello Wonderful Mexicolore. I love ur site and want to make a very respectful suggestion, and that is: that you include interviews with present day descendants of indigenous mexican people. Many mexicans guard oral traditions of perhispanic origin to this very day in Mexico. And it would be great that you post their views and ideas in this site. Many cultural leaders and knowledgable persons in Mexico have been overlooked and neglected for centuries, but they guard the wisdom of their ancestors. Hope you can make some room for these recipients of ancient mexican lore. Thank you.

Dear Mexicolore,
During my workday I chanced upon your wonderful and totally engaging site... I’m blown away!! I haven’t been able to do any work and I have hardly scratched the surface - WOW!! MUY Wow!!
Muchas Gracias

I checked out your Mexicolore website, and I think it is excellent! Lots to capture even my interest. Congratulations on your very successful project.

Mexicolore visited us for the 13th time today and never disappoint in their colourful and highly interesting presentation of Aztec Civilisation. The pupils were buzzing with excitement and both Ian and Graciela should be commended for the way in which they get each and every child involved; we had 100! A truly great educational experience for adults and pupils alike and one that’s sure to linger in their memories. It’s worth it for the spectacle of Ian playing a conch shell alone , let alone the visual and audio spectacle of all the costumes and artefacts. I see a 14th booking on the Sun God’s horizon...

I appreciate your help and willingness to answer [the questions] we send. The site is phenomenal and has such a wealth of information. I have been teaching for 17 years and this is the best online resource on the Aztecs that I have ever seen - very kid-friendly.

Hello:
I know Norbert and Rogelio, and have collaborated in SEMYCA off and on here in Puebla. Congrats for your page.

Why does the British Government refuse to return all those items held by the British in England relating to the Aztecs antiquities?? were they stolen???

Mexicolore is great. I learnt so much

OOO! luv your site! I teach special needs kids, so we do lots of visual/hands on activities. We’re in Los Angeles, con muchos latinos, so it is timely to study meso-americans! On a trip to Mexico 18 years ago I was given about 30 ‘caritas’ from So. of Mexico City...no 2 alike..they had been tilled from the earth of the ‘campos’ in areas still inhabited by the descendents of the Aztecs. We dress up like them and do story boards about their lives back then. Will use your site for future projects!! Thanks....LA to the UK!

AWESOME page! I love it, it’s approachable and interesting, fascinating and fun. It makes me see that the aztec culture is a legacy that goes beyond cultures and it makes me happy to live in a place that once was aztec land.

I love your webpage. its beautiful, super informative and perfect for children as well as grown ups. I work with High school students at a community center teaching mesoamerican History.

Hello. I am an artist with a particular interest in the art of the ancient mexicans which has a big influence on me. Your site is great and I love the amount of content there is. Its a great site for all. Well done. Let me know if you need any help with your work, as Im very interested.
Love and Peace, Steve.

The whole website is just wonderful. Thank you for making it possible.

Mexicolore is a wonderful website, a dream for researchers, such a comprehensive learning tool!

Hello everybody! I was born in Mexico, I love Aztec and Maya cultures, and I found what you do just lovely! I think it would be great if you include some Maya articles on their cosmovision as well. Keep going!

I’m studying the Aztecs and couldn’t even find any good source of information. ’Till I found this site! Very good work guys!

I am grateful to Ian Mursell and John Curl for reconnecting me with my ancestors. You are an invaluable resource and muy buena gente. Gracias

You are giving mis-information, the Aztecs never had Gods!! They worked with energies!

Thanks for the add of our weblog... We hope to have a correspondance very soon...

Thank you very much for your offer to join in your fascinating and worthwhile project. I have examined the excellent Web page that you have constructed and would be more than delighted to join the team that has made it all possible.

I have been using your site to help me enhance my secondary education presentations at graduate school. It is one of the best sites I have found to teach students - or anyone - about the Aztec people and their way of life. I hope to collaborate with your group one day as soon as I finish my studies. I am a returning student looking to get my credentials to teach Spanish at the secondary and post secondary levels. Congratulations on a job well done! Please keep up the good work.

I have used Mexicolore often and have found it a great source to refer my students to as a reliable source of information.

I have been using this site for my Aztec project and have found it very useful!

Found your site by accident - fantastic resource for my home educated son. Refreshing to read reviews of other publications - relieved I’m not the only person concerned about one-sided inaccuracy in the Deary books.

I have long been impressed by Mexicolore and find it both extremely well-illustrated and expertly written for the lay public - without talking down to anyone. The sort of thing I wish I had had when I was a 14-year-old in England looking for detailed information on the Aztecs, beyond the usual encyclopaedia entry. Thank you so much for inviting me to take part in your excellent work on Mexicolore. I accept with great pleasure.

Site highly rated (4 stars) by Schoolzone.co.uk, the UK’s largest, independent education web site

I must say thanks to you for keeping such a great site on the Aztecs; I find the page very interesting, the contents are relevant, extremely well thought and organized and, most of all, highly enjoyable! It's been an amazing discovery to me and I intend to keep exploring it. Cheers fom Mexico City.

i am looking for more info on the artifact featured on the cover of the dec 1980 natty geo. does anyone know what it is called or how big it is? i leafed through my mag but couldnt find a reference to what was on the cover anywhere.

WOW! What a day-Ian and Graciela had our children in an Aztec Fever the moment they arrived. The morning flew by in a magical and colourful extravaganza of Aztec Life. Our pupils were buzzing when they left. 100% recommendation to all interested schools-worth every penny. Thank you

This website is very interesting and has helped me greatly in my work on the Aztecs.

Good luck for everything! Your site is very interesting and full of useful information, not only for schools, but also for scholars...

Your website is quite amazing - a great resource for children...

I am excited about your web site which I stumbled across while searching for Nahuatl words. It is well-written, well-illustrated and easy to use. I especially appreciate the very egalitarian and respectful tone used to convey your message. For the past year, I have had the privilege of socializing heavily within the predominantly Mexican, illegal immigrant population here in Houston, Texas. It seems that hundreds of years of messages of European superiority are still weighing down the conscience of many of this group. For example, one of the derogatory terms commonly heard within this set of people is "Indio" (meaning: "Indian" literally) the target is coarse, drunken and ill-mannered. Your pointed exposal of prejudice is, unfortunately, still necessary, and I applaud your sensitive efforts in this area.
I wish you the best of luck in this very wonderful endeavor.

This site is so helpful, I'm doing the Aztecs at school and this was a recomended link. Keep up the good work!

I am an Art teacher in Florida and have stumbled across your site. I am preparing to teach next year's students about Mexico, their culture, food, art and rich history. ThAnK yOu for having such a detailed and incredible learning resource for everybody. You have so many wonderful ideas for art. I am a FAN of your work. Keep it up! You're awesome!

Que fascinante es mexicolore todo un trabajo de gran experiencia y dedicación es un honor ser parte de ustedes gracias por amar a Mexico los quiero. Ady

i would like to say a big thank you today,i had a really good time
from yr 6 woodstock school!

I live in Guanajuato as an immigrant from California. I welcome visitors who study Nahuatl culture. Some Nahuatl speaking merchants have arts for sale in our public market. Maybe those who come on summer study would like to be my guest in a separate apartment. Let me know if you can visit. Here's my email address: oenthomas@gmail.com

Thank you Ian and Graciela for comeing to or school(Larkswood Primary School) and Graciela I tide my hair up the way you showed me by doing it in plaits then rolling it then tie it up! Once again thank you!

I currently teach Spanish in Harrisonville high school in Harrisonville, Missouri, USA. After doing a search for ideas on Aztec civilization, I found your wonderful website. It is full of great projects and can be a wonderful way to spark the imagination of future class projects. Thank you!

A valuable and enjoyable learning resource

As Christian Feest pointed out in 1990, there is no way the feather headdress in Vienna could have anything at all to do with Moctezuma. And the British Museum Xipe mask is a 19th century fake. I like your fakes, standard issue ones, but useful to start kids on not believing everything the scum dealer tells them or Mommy.

I was delighted to see Mexicolore is still up and running. You visited my secondary school Howbury Grange in 1981 and I still remember at age 37 the art and dancing and stories. I think it was probably one of the best things i did at school. I am using the site to teach my own children aged 12 and 14.

Your wedsite is great! It provided me with lots of information for my Aztec project. You have visited my school Redriff Primary and I really enjoyed your visit.The only improvement needed is that instead of putting Gods of the Month, show all the gods.
Bye! Anfan Li 10 and 1/2 years old.

Hello,
Are there any child friendly sources that compare the Aztec view of the Conquistadors with the Spanish view?
Thanks!

I am interested in two things:
1) Scientific publications derived from the Tezcatlipoca Symposium;
2) I would like to translate into Spanish your Tezcatlipoca Symposium web-page; my purpose is to make that information available to the Hispanic community; I would like to know if there is already a Spanish version and in case that there is not, if is it possible to have author’s permit in order to make the translation.
Thank you very much for your time and help, and congratulations for such a great effort to preserve the Mexican culture.
Sincerely,
Xotlatzin
http://www.xotlatzintla.blogspot.com/

This website is a terrific resource for children and adults interested in learning more about Aztec history and culture. Especially interesting are all the cool factoids that you don't normally read in history texts. I absolutely love the Mexicolore site and wish I had found it sooner! I'll be returning to it frequently in my research, I'm sure.

This website is a gem!!! What a wonderful find here on the net. Thank you so much for all of these wonderful resources!! I cannot express to you how thankful and excited I was to come upon your website!!! Not only is it extremely informative for myself, but also for my young children. I have vistied a lot of sites, and none are nearly as rich in information as yours.

If you study the Aztecs you may have already come across Mexicolore. They come into schools and do ‘living history’ presentations. There are now two new services on their excellent website - an entirely new Aztecs-for-children site, Mexicolore Kids, and an ‘Ask the Experts’ service. These can be found at...

Mexicolore are a small, independent teaching team, established in 1980, specializing in educational services for schools, museums and everyone with a serious interest in the Aztecs. The Aztecs section of their website gives a wealth of information, stories and images about the Aztecs. I would particularly recommend the new (Nov 2004) Kids Pages which are SUPERB!

Brilliant, very impressive, well done!

I LOVE your site! It is very well organized, colorful, and offers wonderful resources and inspiration... The kids' zone is wonderful. Using Flash seems especially appealing to children. The content seems very appropriate, too. Congratulations!

November 19, 2004 The Aztecs - for kids! Kudos to our dear friends Ian Mursell and Graciela Sánchez of London-based Mexicolore, who have added loads of stunning new resources for teachers and pupils to their website. Over the past 25 years, Ian and Graciela have used music, dance, drama, costumes, artefacts, crafts, slides and more than a dose of infectious enthusiasm, to bring Mexican history and culture alive to over 100,000 wide-eyed and curious school children the length and breadth of England. An incredible achievement. The richness of the educational material on their website is, I believe, without equal and I cannot do it justice here. You'll need to hitch a ride with their very own Aztec character, Tecpatl - 'Tec' for short - for a journey into Aztec life using Flash games & puzzles. Enjoy!
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I added the link to your site, needless to say, because I was enormously impressed by it - not only compendious but also very thoughtfully constructed; I felt it would be ideal for my readers, who probably don’t know much about Mesoamerican civilisation but would like to learn more.

What a wonderful web site you have, and what an important resource!!

It’s quite superb! Thank you! Children who work hard in class are given this opportunity as a treat. They love it!

What you have up on the site is wonderful.

This a really valuable set of resources that will be well-used and valued by schools. It is well designed, simple to use and contains enough information for both teachers and parents to make effective use of the resources

Many congratulations! - this is a wonderful and beautifully presented resource [commenting on the Teponaztli feature]

Your site, your work is amazing and inspiring! I am an artist-author-educator and I concentrate my efforts on the traditional arts of the Maya, doing work both here in the USA and Guatemala. With Maya educators, I helped print a coloring book of my drawings about the arts and crafts of Guatemala and raise funds for a project I call "Pro Arte Maya". I also post free educational materials on my website www.marilynfanderson.com
I congratulate you again on your multicultural work and I will tell colleagues about you!

Your wonderful site... plenty of useful information for my students... it's a blend of serious information and fun for everyone

I have now read all of the two parts of Tzictli and studied the illustrations. I am very, very impressed. What a treasurehouse of information and photographs. I am very honoured indeed to have my simple illustrations among them...

I have just had a look at your new website, it is a fantastic tribute to the amazing achievement and success of Mexicolore. Wow, both you two have done so much and always with such passion. Dan [designer of MexicoloreKids, and Deborah's brother-in-law] is an incredible designer, but without a content or substance a website is nothing. So I take my sombrero off to salute two of the most hard working people I know.

You guys are doing such a wonderful job for Brit education and Mexican culture

Wow, what a fantastic website. I am a student teacher and I am so delighted to have found all this information.

Excelente página web dedicada a la difusión de todo lo que tenga que ver con los Aztecas entre estudiantes y profesores. Sus responsables llevan años realizando actividades en vivo para estudiantes del Reino Unido. En su página web se puede desde escuchar la pronunciación de palabras náhuatl, aprender sobre todo tipo de aspectos de la vida de los Aztecas o escuchar y aprender sobre sus instrumentos musicales. Realmente imprescindible. [Inglés]

All you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, including a school visit service too. Superb, informative website, and lots of educational materials. Well worth a visit.

Thank you so much for your invitation to serve on your Panel of Experts on the Aztecs. I have enjoyed going through your most impressive web site, and I'm delighted to be part of this wonderful project... It's a terrifically exciting project and site!!

Really detailed site too. You’re doing Huitzilopochtli’s work - best of luck with it.

You run a wonderful resource for kids, and I am proud to be a part of it.

Thank you so much for coming to my school (which is Flora McDonald). I loved the music that was played at the end, in fact I loved it all - especially being chosen to dress up! After school my mum took me to the library and I took out 8 books on the Aztecs and I am going to do my own project! Thank you again.

Su sitio internet es simplemente sensacional, bien documentado y hecho con mucho amor

[Mexicolore is] committed to doing a lovely, valuable, useful job...

This is one of the best sites on the internet that I've found for objective information about the Aztecs. I've learned quite a lot that I did not know looking around here, and it's also well organized for finding answers.

Again congratulations for your dynamic and useful website and I am glad to collaborate with you.

I currently teach Spanish in Harrisonville High School in Harrisonville, Missouri, USA. After doing a search for ideas on Aztec civilization, I found your wonderful website. It is full of great projects and can be a wonderful way to spark the imagination of future class projects. Thank you!

Just to say thank you for a super resource for the Aztecs which I have not taught before.