![]() ![]() The great conquistador Hernán Cortés even wrote the king of Spain about the Ahuízotl. Early Spanish settlers had either claimed to have seen the creature or had reported on the stories of its existence. ![]() Some linguists have thought the name to mean, simply, “water dog,” some sources claim “Ahuízotl” means, “the thorny one who lives in the water.” To the Aztecs and other pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican peoples, the creature was as real as a deer or a turkey it was not a fantastic animal of myths and legends but a tangible part of nature. In the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, this lake and river monster was called the Ahuízotl, which has had different interpretations over the years. The creature’s territory was restricted to the lakes and rivers around this main city of the Aztecs, later the Mexico City of the Spanish, but it was sometimes seen in other parts of Mexico, always close to the center of the old Aztec heartland. In the lakes surrounding the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, there was said to lurk a strange creature, one that would attack people and capsize fishing boats. When the Spanish arrived in the New World they were met with unfamiliar peoples, new landscapes and strange plants and creatures. ![]() It’s only logical to ask the question, does Mexico have the equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster? Bad Scottish weather aside, the answer is a complicated “yes,” or perhaps just a “maybe.” ![]() People liken this to the Bermuda Triangle. There exists an area in Mexico’s Chihuahua Desert full of strange magnetic anomalies, disappearances and unexplained objects. Some people claim that Mexico had its own type of Roswell incident when a flying saucer crashed outside the northern Mexican town of Coyame. Mexico has its own version of Bigfoot called the sisimite. ![]()
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