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In 1520 the Conquista wave in Central America has reached the numerous tribe of mexihcah…

The desperate resistance which detained the Spanish on the way to the capital of the tribe sowed apprehension in the hearts of the conquistadors, but their fighting spirit soon livened up and the onslaught gained strength. And it was then when the priests begged the God of the Erebus — Mictlantecuhtli. Mexihcah wasn't asked to sustain them for the war, nor to give them the courage for the fight. They begged for the newcomers to vanish in the underground kingdom of the most uncompromising existence of the universe - — The Death.

The supplication turned out to be heard.

На рассвете языческого Día de los Muertos the pestilence spread over the Spanish camp. No one knew if it was the epidemy or a subversion of poisoning the water on the way of the conquerors. Distressed by such a misfortune, their strength grew weaker.

It is thought to be the reason of the meshik warriors making imperceptible sorties into the Spanish camps, but the Spanish themselves being the faithful Catholics, adhered to a different opinion. Sudden deaths caused settled superstitions and fears, proved by the captive natives. And the conquistadors came to believe that this was the evil God in the likeness of dangerous shadows flickering in the thicket of the gloomy jungle who took the field against them.

They nicknamed him as El Enumbria...

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The Indian capital would have withstood if Fernando Cortes' army hadn't come to the aid of the conquistadors.

Mexihcah were conquered. And with the lapse of time converted to Christianity. However, the grateful memory of the desperate natives' descendants supported the cult of the God of the underground kingdom, who has been especially honored on the Día de los Muertos.

There is a legend which says that in 1847 during the siege of the Mexican port Veracruz by the Americans, Mictlantecuhtli showed its shady merciless face from the underworld. And was named by the scared Americans The Inshader...