Landscape and Cosmogony in Ancient Mexico

Abstract

It is proposed as a text understand the history of Mexico from the actions that modified its landscape. Therefore, historical research was the structuring factor. The Nature, cosmovision and culture formed the triad that helped to understand ancient Mexico from the Gran Tenochtitlán, a landmark of urban planning, to the Bosque Chapultepec, which was thought of as a space for sacred ritual. It is through landscapes and gardens that Mexican peoples were spiritually connected with divinities, sacredness and feelings of the soul, but it is also the landscapes and the gardens that testify to the strength and power of the emperors. Mexican culture, as a metaphysical aspect of the landscape, is so strong that it is present even today, even though Mexico suffered from the Spanish invasion that tried to erase Mexican history with its architectural constructions that modified the landscape, as well as the impositions cultural. Finally, it is necessary to understand Mexico in every historical period to plan, to design and to conserve its landscape and gardens.