Flight of the Hummingbird: An Aztec Tale of Fire and Rain and the End of the Fifth Sun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798993795447)

Walk with Huitzilin, "the Hummingbird," an extraordinarily talented human being to experience this fascinating and vibrant culture.

Spanning two generations, this family saga follows Huitzilin's household as they rise through Aztec hierarchy. Starting out as humble farm workers, they advance through education, military service, the arts, business, trade, construction, and diplomacy, until Huitzilin reaches the pinnacle of the Aztec world as Emperor Moctezuma's chief advisor.

The story guides you through the history of the Mexica people who started as nomads in their ancestral birthplace in the caves beyond Aztlan and follows them as they rise to supremacy in Mesoamerica in both power and beauty. But, the arrival of the conquistadors brings their world, in the era of the Fifth Sun, to its prophesied end with an earthquake of fire and rain.

You will experience Aztec culture as it has never before been presented, through their art and poetry: in xochitl in cuicatl, "the Flower and the Song." Art must not just please the eye, it must carry truth. It must be beauty that invites reflection on life and death, on the fleeting and the eternal. The heart of art is philosophy.