It will never be forgotten, it will always be preserved. We will preserve it, we who are the younger brothers, the children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, we who are the [family extensions] - the hair, eyebrows, nails - the colour and the blood, we who are the descendants ... we who have been born and lived where lived and governed all the precious ancient Chichimeca kings.
The Nahau historian Chimalpahin, quoted in C. Townsend, Fifth Sun (2019), 197
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