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Originally Posted by BEHIND ENEMY LINES
I have read some of Diaz's writings and they are fascinating. I think that his accounts are accurate from his biased point of view. He openly challenges Cortes' account of the events of the conquest and states that his account is the only accurate one. His words should be viewed as accurate but with the understanding that he is biased (he writes from the view of a common soldier).
More interesting to me are the Nahua and Mexica accounts (See Florentine Codex). Specificaly interesting to me is the Nahua viewpoint of the purpose of war. (Not for conquest but to gather worthy warrior / sacrifices to their gods).
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Oh yeah, I read snippets of some of that when I was at BYU, fascinating stuff. This is the bit about where they killed the princess, skinned her and then one of the priests showed up dressed in her skin right?