And here is the 3rd leader, Topiltzin (Toltec):
The greatest ruler of the Toltecs (a culture which greatly influenced the Mayans and later the Aztecs) was Ce Acatl Topiltzin who was renowned for being the leader and high priest of Quetzacoatl at the time when Tula and the Empire were established. According to Toltec legend, Tezatlipoca's followers drove Topiltzin and the followers of Quetzalcoatl out of the city around 1000 AD. They fled south, where they were able to defeat the Maya at the city of Chichen Itza, and take it for their own. An interesting twist in Topiltzin's legend is that he vowed to return to Tula from the east in one of his sacred years and take his vengeance. This legend lived all the way to the time of the Aztecs, who attributed the arrival of the Spanish as the return of Topiltzin, an event that they feared greatly.
"A legendary leader, Topiltzin Cē Ācatl Quetzalcōatl (Our Prince One-Reed Feathered Serpent) is a mythologised figure appearing in 16th-century accounts of Aztec and Nahua historical traditions, where he is identified as a ruler in the 10th century of the Toltecs - by Aztec tradition their predecessors who had political control of the Valley of Mexico and surrounding region several centuries before the Aztecs themselves arrived on the scene.
One estimate puts the years of his reign from 923 to 947, although the correlation between dates of Toltec history and the Gregorian calendar remain uncertain, as does the very nature of a defined "Toltec civilization" itself."
Full wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiltzin_Ce_Acatl_Quetzalcoatl
The greatest ruler of the Toltecs (a culture which greatly influenced the Mayans and later the Aztecs) was Ce Acatl Topiltzin who was renowned for being the leader and high priest of Quetzacoatl at the time when Tula and the Empire were established. According to Toltec legend, Tezatlipoca's followers drove Topiltzin and the followers of Quetzalcoatl out of the city around 1000 AD. They fled south, where they were able to defeat the Maya at the city of Chichen Itza, and take it for their own. An interesting twist in Topiltzin's legend is that he vowed to return to Tula from the east in one of his sacred years and take his vengeance. This legend lived all the way to the time of the Aztecs, who attributed the arrival of the Spanish as the return of Topiltzin, an event that they feared greatly.
"A legendary leader, Topiltzin Cē Ācatl Quetzalcōatl (Our Prince One-Reed Feathered Serpent) is a mythologised figure appearing in 16th-century accounts of Aztec and Nahua historical traditions, where he is identified as a ruler in the 10th century of the Toltecs - by Aztec tradition their predecessors who had political control of the Valley of Mexico and surrounding region several centuries before the Aztecs themselves arrived on the scene.
One estimate puts the years of his reign from 923 to 947, although the correlation between dates of Toltec history and the Gregorian calendar remain uncertain, as does the very nature of a defined "Toltec civilization" itself."
Full wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiltzin_Ce_Acatl_Quetzalcoatl
