Malinche married another Spaniard from the Conquest.
Hernan Cortes was put into prision and lived there until his death.
Malinche's and Cortes' love child, Martin, went to Spain and became a knight and died in battle.
Tecuichpo (wife of Cuauhtemoc) would become a Christian and have four Spanish husbands and out living them.
The Spanish created Tenochtitlan in their image. The Great Temple that it once occupied was divided into lots amongst the Conquistadors. The lakes around Tenochtitlan were drained. The waterbirds and fish are no longer in the lakes. Roads would replace the dikes in Tenochtitlan. Wheeled carts and mule packs replaced canoes. In the 17th century, without the dikes, the Mexico City was repeatedly flooded. The land would become infertile over the centuries.
In the 17th century, Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc wrote:
Thus they have come to tell it,
thus they have come to record it in their narration,
and for us they have painted it in their codices,
the ancient men, the ancient women.
Thus in the future
never will it perish, never will it be forgotten,
always we will treasure it,
we, their children, their grandchildren,
brothers, great-grandchildren,
great-great-grandchildren, descendants,
we who carry their blood and their color,
we will tell it, we will pass it on
to those who do not yet live, who are yet to be born,
the children of the Mexicans, the children of the Tenochcans.
On 1566, Alonso de Avila Alvarado and his brother Gil, sons of one of the conquistador who fought in the conquest, united with other sons of the conquistadors (including Martin, son of Hernan Cortes) and conspired against Spain. They believed that it was unjust that they had to pay taxes even though their fathers fought for Spain. They were arrested and trialed. A few days later the verdict was they were guilty of treason against the crown. Alonso and Gil were the sons who suffered the most; they lost their possessions and their lives. They were both sentenced to be beheaded in the Plaza Mayor. Their houses, which were made of the stones of the Teocalli, were destroyed. They were beheaded, 2 meters above where Coyolxauhqui was buried.
On August 13, 1790, the statue of Coatlique was was discovered at the Plaza de Armas in Mexico City. Was this a coidcidence: August 13, 1521 and August 13, 1790?
In 1805, Bishop Benito Marin Moxo y Francoly wrote in a letter:
The statue was placed… in one of the corners of the spacious University patio, where it remained upright for some time, but in the end it was necessary to bury it once again… for a reason that none had foreseen. The Indians, who observe all the monuments of Europeans art with such stupid indifference, came with a lively curiosity to contemplate their famous statue. At first it was thought that they were moved to this by no other incentive than national pride, a characteristic of savage no less than of civilized peoples, and by the pleasure of seeing one of the most outstanding works by their ancestors, which they could see was esteemed by educated Spaniards. Nonetheless, it later came to seem that in their frequent visits there was some secret religious motive. It was thus essential to prohibit their access absolutely; but their fanatical enthusiasm and their incredible cunning made a mockery of this decision. They watched for moments when the patio would be empty of people, especially in the afternoon when, at the conclusion of the academic lessons, all the classrooms are closed. Then they would take advantage of the silence that reigns in this home of the Muses, they would leave their towers and hurry to adore their Goddess Teoyaomiqui [Coatlique]. A thousand times the beadles, returning from outside and crossing the patio on the way to their quarters, caught the Indians by surprise, some on their knees, other prostrate… before the statue, and holding in their hands burning candles and other diverse offerings of the sort their elders used to present to their idols. And these things which were done, and later observed with care by many grave and learned persons… led to the resolution, as we said, of once more placing the aforesaid statue beneath the ground.
In the 19th century the named Azteca was used to refer to the Mexica.
In 1965, in Tlatelolco, a plaque was installed which said (I got the English version if anyone has the Spanish version of the Plaque, please e-mail it to me):
Translation:
On the 13th of August in 1521,
heroically defended by Cuauhtemoc,
Tlatelolco fell to Hernan Cortes.
This was neither a triumph nor a defeat,
it was a painful birth
of the mestizo people
who are the Mexico of today.
