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Flight of the Hummingbird

By Salomon Quintero

Flight of the Hummingbird Books

Flight of the Hummingbird

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Walk with Huitzilin, "the Hummingbird," an extraordinarily talented human being to experience this fascinating and vibrant culture. Spanning two generations, this family saga follows Huitzilin's household as they rise through Aztec hierarchy. Starting out as humble farm workers, they advance through education, military service, the arts, business, trade, construction, and diplomacy, until Huitzilin reaches the pinnacle of the Aztec world as Emperor Moctezuma's chief advisor. The story guides you through the history of the Mexica people who started as nomads in their ancestral birthplace in the caves beyond Aztlan and follows them as they rise to supremacy in Mesoamerica in both power and beauty. But, the arrival of the conquistadors brings their world, in the era of the Fifth Sun, to its prophesied end with an earthquake of fire and rain. You will experience Aztec culture as it has never before been presented, through their art and poetry: in xochitl in cuicatl, "the Flower and the Song." Art must not just please the eye, it must carry truth. It must be beauty that invites reflection on life and death, on the fleeting and the eternal. The heart of art is philosophy.A flower blooms and withers. A song rises and fades. But what they carry remains.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
278
Release Date:
2026-01-28
Publication Date:
2026-01-28
Publisher:
Salomón Quintero, Esq.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798993795447
Weight:
407 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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