Meso American Timeline
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when figures from the past stand tall
and mocking voices ring above
imperialistic house of prayer
conquistadors who took their share
- Joy Division, Dead Souls
HISTORY
 South American cultures have legends of a tall white, bearded man or God who brought them Civilisation. This god was called Viracocha by the Mayans and Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs. Among his many other names are Viracocha-rapacha, Huaracocha, Con, Con ticci, Kon Tiki, Pachaccan, Thunupa, Taapac, Tupaca and illa. He was a bringer of Science and knowledge, a teacher and a healer. Many of his practices and teachings resemble the customs of Ancient Egypt. The use of Pyramids is ascribed to him, as is the shared ceremony of the opening of the mouth. After his teaching, the Mayan kings were granted an afterlife among the stars just as the Egyptians believed. His barge had similar animal entities as that of the Egyptian gods.

3114 BC The Mayan calendar begins before Maya culture existed, and could measure time well into the future
Legendary Aztecs came from an Island called Aztlan, meaning White Place Place of Herons. which was described as an island in a lake with Chicomoztoc depicted as seven temples in the center of the island. The Aztecs felt they were the "chosen people" of Huitzilopochtli. The Aztecs believed Huitzilopochtli their war god was their protector, how had them search for their promised land. The number Seven leads many to believe that it was a remembrance of the same culture that later inspired Sumer and Persia among others.
2600 BC Mayan peoples Originating in the Yucatan according to some sources.
20,000
years ago		 Many people believe that the ancestors of the Maya crossed the Bering Strait
18,000 - 10,000 BC (Paleoindian era) corresponds to the period of the initial population of the New World via the Bering Land Bridge towards the end of the Pleistocene ("Ice Age"). The early limits of this period are poorly understood and hotly debated. The end of this period is marked by dramatic climate changes, including global warming, the receding of glaciers at upper latitudes, and a world-wide rise in sea levels. These changes, as well as possible human exploitation, led to the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna mammoths and mastodons first, followed by species like horses, giant beavers, and ground sloth's. Archaeological sites are usually quarries for stone material, short term camps, or butchering locations. The latter typically have evidence of big game kills. Typical artefacts of this period include fluted projectile points such as Clovis, Folsom, and Magellan ("fishtail") styles. It is between the two great Ice Ages that the Empire of Enoch reigned
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16,800 BC		 Sutekh arrives in the Mesoamerican kingdom now known as Peru. He sails from the West with a full fleet of retainers.
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13,500 BC		 Sutekh leaves his Mesoamerican kingdom in the hands of his childer and returns to Khem to claim his inheritance. The Kingdom remains ruled by Enoch but is visited far less than those outposts in the cradle of Civilization.


The feathered Serpent
Sutekh the Warrior, younger brother to Osiris and Husband to Nephthys was embraced, so it is believed, by Irad the Strong of Caine's Empire in Enoch. Although of the royal line and hereditary ruler of half of Egypt, his Vampiric older brother was not keen to share the kingdom. Their lengthy conflicts eventually led to Osiris destruction, the creation of the reborn and the diaspora of the Silent Strider's.

Remembered now as the villain, Sutekh, better know as Set, was once a great hero and warrior Prince of the Neteru, or Egyptian Royalty. He fought against the serpent Apep and brought him low, a fact depicted by the many works of Art from the early Dynasties showing Set as the enemy of Apep and of the forces of darkness.

Set's story as the Enemy of Osiris, Horus, Isis and the Silent Striders has been repeated elsewhere, and it means little to us here. What we are concerned with are the actions of Prince Set before his fall from Grace. His time as a neonate of the third generation and as a servant of Irad and the Enochian Empire. Not long (by Vampire reckoning) after his embrace, Set travelled to South America at the command of his sire. He aided in the building of the Enochian Empires outpost on this wild continent, teaching the natives, precursors of the Xi (Olmec's), many of the advancements that his fellow Egyptians knew. Legends speak of a master of science and magic, an engineer, a sculptor and architect, a teacher and a healer, cloaked in secrecy. " He caused terraces and fields to be formed on the steep sides of ravines, and sustaining walls to rise up and support them. He also made irrigating channels to flow … and he went in various directions, arranging many things. Spanish historians could not find a time when he had not been venerated by the people of Peru and his influence was undeniable in countless other regions. "

With his Royal beard and Vampire pale skin, Set stood out as very different to the Local population and was venerated as a bringer of civilization. The stone Viracocha carved into a tall pillar of red rock in a sunken temple at Tiahuanaco might just be the actual face of Sutekh, antediluvian of the Setite clan! Although now well worn it is unmistakably the face of a man of power. Each side of his robe shows the sinuous form of a snake coiling up from ground to shoulder level, the animistic symbol of Sutekh himself. The carvings of what seem to be oddly shaped mammoths that accompany it also hint at a age not generally accepted.

With civilisation came worship, and the tribal people saw Set as a great leader and educator. His boat of Serpents was more like magic to the Natives, and his burgeoning powers of Obfuscate, Presence and Serpentis was akin to Godhood. They called him The Plumed serpent. Later, in other tongues, he would be remembered as the civilising God Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl. The Plumed or feathered Serpent had many names, some of which may be avatars of the god or possible independent gods in their own rights. Among these names are Kukulkan, Gucumatz, Votan and Itzama who is called serpent of the East and is described as a healer who could heal by the laying on of hands and raise the dead.

His blood was said to grant vast power and to be the basis of much devotion. While it may seem that Set became some kind of Solomon or Saintly figure, the truth is not so cut and dried. Much of the civilization and advances that were introduced to the Xi was the result of Set's presence and his own selfish desires rather than an altruistic program to guide the locals. Set was a warrior and a Prince and so he sought, naturally, to ensure those who served him lacked nothing in the way of skill and strength and that he was afforded every comfort deserving of his station in life.

Set did not travel to South American rainforests alone, he travelled there as a Vampire Prince. He brought slaves, soldiers, Ghouls and countless trinkets from his native lands. Set had hundreds of Ibis shipped over, as well as pots full of Lotus and Nile reeds to line his Haven. The Nubian slaves in his retinue so enthralled the locals that they recorded their likeness in stone, creating huge stone heads that were copied over and over again and are still baffling Archaeologists today. They taught the locals the art of building rafts from reeds and of constructing sacred pyramids, albeit simplified versions of those in glorious Khem.

His people, those Egyptians and the Enochian Slaves who served him also bore the name of their God, Viracocha, in some places. Their descriptions appear to cover two separate types. The Huaminca or Faithful soldiers and the Hayhuaypanti or shining ones. The Huaminca seemed to be mortals who were granted powers and long lives by the gods. The Hayhuaypanti were either Gods or mortals raised to the status of Gods. To those who know of the nature of the Children of Caine, it is clear that these legends speak of Ghouls and Embraced Childer.

Peru: Viracocha's Capitol
Set was the Lord of the South American outpost of Caine's empire for many years, and he grew to love the land. He also grew to love the people, as much as a Vampire can love its servants and its herd. He could never transfer his love of his Desert homeland to the rainforests, but he did find some solace there and embraced his native lover Ixchel. In turn, Ixchel Embraced as many as six other women of her tribe. Omeciuatli, Chicomecoatl, Coatlicue, Tlaltecuhtli, Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli and Tonacacihuatl. Together these seven vampires were Set's wives and closest confidants. The people referred to them as the Aclla Cuna or 'the brides of Rattlesnake'.









As the Empire grew, Set had his wives embrace two great kings of neighbouring tribes, the Maya and the EpiOlmec, to consolidate the Power of his adopted people. The First of these was Itzama the Lizard, and the second was Tonatiuh the soaring Eagle. So began the First Bloodline of Set's Clan of vampires, the Ahua Can or Lordly serpents. Together these are the nine lords of the night depicted as fanged Gods (or creatures) in the Pyramid of Lord Pacal (in South America) and on Mayan pottery from the first Millenium AD. These nine rule the Bloodline as legendary figures and Gods, and have passed into the myths of both the Maya and the Aztec peoples These Figures have been depicted on pots and temples as fanged humans with snake belts.

The Ahua Can have had a subtle effect on the South American cultures since pre-history. Even long after Set left, he was remembered as Quetzalcoatl and his teachings revered. Whether the teachings ever actually issued from the lips of Sutekh or from his human priesthood is a matter lost to the mists of prehistory.

10,000 ca. 3,000 BC (Archaic) term used to refer to a period of mobile, band level societies with economies based on smallgame hunting, wild plant gathering, fishing, and shellfish collection. There is a continuation of the nomadic patterns of the Paleoindian period at first, but the Late Archaic sees the appearance of regular, seasonally occupied sites. The trend for sedentism is most noticeable on the coasts, where sites with large shell middens indicate seasonal settlement. In general, the Archaic period is characterised by "incipient" or beginning agriculturists. Experimentation with different plant foods increases through time, resulting in the domestication of species such as pumpkin, squash, avocado, chile peppers, amaranth, and early maize. Seasonally nomadic groups become more sedentary, with small "microband" groups coalescing into larger "macroband" organisations. Typical artefacts of this period include basketry, smaller projectile points, and early ground stone tools such as manos and metates.
3,000 BC Early Preclassic (begins ca. 3,000 BC and ends ca. 1000 BC) the term "Early Formative" is also frequently used for this period, which corresponds to the time during which permanent villages and later large chiefdoms appeared. The beginning of the Early Formative (3,000 to1,000 BC) is signalled by the appearance of simple pottery vessels, typically in the form of tecomates, or gourd shaped, rimless vessels. Village life is based primarily on agriculture, with special emphasis on the cultivation of maize, beans, and squash.
5,000 to 1,500 BC corn cultivation, basic pottery and stone tools. Evidence of settled habitation in Mexico is found in the Archaic period
4,000 to 2,000 BC Rolf Muller postulates that Machu Picchu is first inhabited at sometime during this era. He points to the positioning of certain key edifice and structure and their alignment to celestial bodies of the time to back up his theory. The Inca and the tribes who inherit their empire certainly believe that a people from this time created all the engineering feats of Peru.
2,400 BC Potery is decorated first with "plastic" decoration and later with slipping and painting.
1,800 BC The Formative or Preclassic period begins, when the first permanent agricultural settlements were established, to 200 AD.
1,700 B.C Radiocarbon dates inform us that La Venta and San Lorenzo were inhabited as early as 1700 BC, by peoples who were the direct ancestors to the Gulf coast. They were corn farmers who supplemented their diets with fishing and hunting. Linguists suggest that they spoke a language related to the Mixe and Zoque languages of today.
1,700 BC there is evidence for sophisticated pottery decoration in the Barra phase of coastal Chiapas.
1,600 BC large houses, mica mirrors, and fancy figurines suggest the emergence of differences in wealth and social status.


THE RULE OF THE LORDLY SERPENTS
Set returned to Khem and warred long and hard with his brother for the half of the Kingdom he was entitled to. Eventualy both the first and the second cities fell, Caine abandoned his offspring and the great Slave empire of Enoch passed into memory. Back in South America the Ahua Can watched the Mayan and then the Toltec empires rise and were instrumental in their growth. Ixchel and her Childer were happier working behind the masks of God's, or totally hidden from the mortal populace. While the nature of vampires is always fractious and predatory, tribal peoples have less conflict living with parasitic Gods. The Empires of south America, from Argentina to Peru, were strong and well defined. The Ahua Can spread throughout the continent and each vampire found a place amid the herd. At times they met with other solitary Vampires and when they managed to avoid bloodshed, they learnt some of the stories of the Children of Caine elsewhere. The Lowest generation Ahua Can began to fall into torpor and where ensconced in Pyramids or hidden cities by their followers, the younger Vampires settled amid the tribes and settlements. Most of the 7th generation and lower had succumbed to Torpor by the time the Mayan Empire ended. The Toltec were shaped by the middle generations and the furthest from Caine did not come into their own until the time of the Aztec.

1,500 BC to 300 AD (Pre Classic period) The first true civilisation was established with the rise of the Olmecs The Olmecs settled on the Gulf Coast, and little is known about them. They are regarded as the inventors of many aspects of MesoAmerican cultures including the first calendar and hieroglyphic writing in the Western hemisphere. Archaeologists have not settled the relationship between the Olmecs and the Maya, and it is a mystery whether the Maya were their descendants, trading partners, or had another relationship. The Olmec people called themselves Xi (pronounced Shi). The Olmec Shaman were part of the Balaam tribe, or Were-Jaguars and many figures show them Shapshifting. The Olmec had many beliefs. Among these beliefs were chaneques which were dwarf tricksters who lived in water falls. They also had their own beliefs in cosmology. The Olmec had natural shrines devoted to the hill on which the shrine was located and the water. These Chaneques were undoubtedly a Fae or Spirit race.
1,150 BC Olmec culture begins to flourish around this time on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Olmec culture represents the rise of chiefdom level societies. It is characterised by elaborate stone sculpture, massive building projects, highly crafted artefacts of jade and other precious materials, and a distinctive art style that indicates the development of a powerful religious ideology. The most important Early Formative Olmec site is San Lorenzo.
900 BC to AD 450. Both the Olmec and epiOlmec had hieroglyphic writing systems. Olmec is a syllabic writing system used in the Olmec heartland. At La Venta we can see platform mounds were arranged around large plaza areas and include a new type of architecture, a tall pyramid mound.
from 31B.C (The epiOlmec) the peoples who subsequently inhabited the same lands and were probably descended at least in part from the Olmec, seem to have been the earliest users of the bar and dot system of recording time. The vigesimal (or base 20) counting system has been used across Mesoamerica. A value of 5 is represented by a bar, and a value of 1 is represented by a dot, such that the three bars and single dot here stands for 16. The Maya would later adopt this counting system for their Long Count calendar. In the northern area of the Olmec domain there was some cultural continuity long after 500 BC Tres Zapotes became an important postOlmec center, and Laguna de los Cerros continued as a major center into the Classic period.
AD 250 the Maya rose to prominence around in present day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize. Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilisations such as the Olmec








500 - 900 AD Chichen Itza was first populated
900 AD Chichen Itza was abandoned.
1,000 AD (About AD 900 in other sources) Chichen Itza resettled and subsequently invaded by Toltecs from the North, the Toltec sacked and burned the great city of Teotihuacan under the leadership, according to tradition, of Mixcoatl ("Cloud Serpent"). Under his son, Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, they formed a number of small states of various ethnic origins into an empire later in the 10th century. The Toltecs ruled much of Maya central Mexico from the tenth to twelfth centuries AD The Toltecs were the last dominant Mesoamerican culture before the Aztecs, and inherited much from Maya civilisation. The Toltec capital was at Tula, 80 kilometres north of Mexico City. The most impressive Toltec ruins, however, are at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, where a branch of Toltec culture survived beyond the civilisation's fall in central Mexico.
1300 Chichen Itza abandoned
1000 to 1100 AD Mayan's lived in relative peace.
1100 AD Mayap‡n overthrew the confederation and ruled for over 200 years.
The Toltec culture at Teotihuacan ended around 500 AD when they moved to Chichen Itza leaving the pyramids of Teotihuacan in abandonment. The reason for this move was the reawakening of Ixchel and her daughters, the Aclla cuna from beneath the city. Dreams of a dark enemy with unclean powers disturbed the Founders sleep and she shook off the cold grip of the tomb to guide her childer to safety. She warned them that she saw 'smoke in the Mirror' and that she saw the end of her people if they did not move. They decided to influence the Mortals into moving their capitol to Chichen Itza because it held more spiritual and esoteric importance to their favourite children, the Mayan culture. This city was vitally important to the bloodline and it remained a centre of their worship through out the Mayan and Toltec era. It was at this sacred site that Ixchel and the majority of her Childer slowly began to fall into Torpor again around 800 AD. The 6th, 7th and 8th Generations took the place of the eldest as the Gods of the Night as the end of the first Millennium approached in Europe. Meanwhile, back in Teotihuacan, a new Vampire had taken up residence in the sepulchre to lick his wounds and to plan for the future.

Lacking the strong leadership of the Methuselah, the Ahua Can Bloodline became fractious and splintered along personal lines. Each Vampire chose his or her alliances based on power and mortal bloodline as much as political necessity and ego.

In around 900 AD to 1000 AD, Chichen Itza is invaded by the Toltec led by a group of Ahua Can who sought to wrest dominance of the bloodlines destiny from their sires and grandsires. Tempted by the whispers of a new god who made himself known as a smoky form in obsidian mirrors, the younger generations of Ahua can sought the heartsblood of their sires. It is generally accepted that no knowledge of Diablerie existed among the Ahua Can before this point and although it is argued who first told them of it, it is accepted that it was an outside source. The Higher generation Vampires failed in their coup and were slaughtered by the united forces of Ahua Can and Mayan villagers, but at heavy cost to the lower generations. The Ahua Can Tlaloc (who later joined the Itzcoatl), CentŽotl, ltzpapaloti and Tonatiuh survived the attempted patricide and brought their few remaining childer under their yoke. Taking the Toltec people from these rebellious offspring they ruled the bloodline from the Toltec capital at Tula, 80 kilometres north of Mexico City. Again the Bloodline survived by moving with times and by adapting to the culture of the dominant Mortal tribes. That being said, the heart of the Ahua Can still lies amidst the Toltec ruins at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, where many of the Ahua Can Methuselah still sleep.







THE COMING OF SHAITAN
The worship of the Toltec Vampires was strong until the coming of Huitzilopochtli [Blue humming bird] the Aztec war god who the Children of Caine knew better as Shaitan, Father of the Ba'ali bloodline. This insidious creature planned his takeover with precision and cunning, subverting disaffected Ahua Can and delivering a warlike Tribe to power over the peaceful peoples of the area.
Huitzilopochtli and his lesser gods dominated the Aztec pantheon in the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan and the empire. This pantheon introduced the bloody rituals that the Aztecs are now remembered for. One important body of myths describes Quetzalcoatl as the priest-king of Tula, the capital of the Toltecs. He never offered human victims, only snakes, birds, and butterflies.

But the god of the night sky, Tezcatlipoca, expelled him from Tula by performing feats of black magic. Quetzalcoatl wandered down to the coast of the "divine water" (the Atlantic Ocean) and then immolated himself on a pyre, emerging as the planet Venus. According to another version, he embarked upon a raft made of snakes and disappeared beyond the eastern horizon.

The legend of the victory of Tezcatlipoca over the Feathered Serpent reflects historical fact. The first century of the Toltec civilisation was dominated by the Teotihuacan culture, with its inspired ideals of priestly rule and peaceful behaviour taught by the Ahua Can. The pressure of the northern immigrants guided in secret by Shaitan, brought about a social and religious revolution, with a military ruling class seizing power from the priests.

Quetzalcoatl's defeat symbolized the downfall of the Old school Ahua Can and their Classic theocracy. His sea voyage to the east should probably be connected with the invasion of Yucatan by the Itza, a tribe that showed strong Toltec features. The threats first felt at Teotihuacan in 500 AD finally toppled the Ahua Can dominance of Southern America in the 14th Century.

The history of the Toltec culture at Teotihuacan is shrouded in mystery. The entire culture disappeared, leaving the pyramids of Teotihuacan in abandonment until they were uncovered 500 years later around 1000 AD by the Aztecs. When the Aztec found the city, they did not find it completely abandoned. The creature that rested beneath the city found willing converts among the warrior Aztec. He assumed the guise of Huitzilopochtli and began to map out their destiny for them.

12th and 13th centuries AD Aztecs came into the valley of Mexico. They were driven from one location to another.
Early 14th century Huitzilopochtli told Tenoch to lead his people to a place of refuge on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco. When they reached their destination, they were to look for an eagle perched on a cactus, growing from a rock or cave surrounded by water. At that location, they were to build their city and honour Huitzilopochtli with human sacrifices. The city they built was called Tenochtitlán, the city of Tenoch. continuing tensions between the Aztecs and the neighbouring peoples on the mainland who despised them.
1376 the Aztecs selected an emperor of royal lineage, to gain respect of their neighbours. With political genius, they chose a man by the name of Acamapichtli as their emperor. He was related to the last rulers of Culhuacán, and his lineage extended back in time to the great Toltec ruler Quetzalcóatl. With the selection of Acamapichtli as the Aztecs first true emperor, their were able to claim descendency from the great Toltecs.
1441 the Maya who had previously ruled Uxmal destroyed the city of Mayap‡n and founded a new city at Mani. Wars were fought between rival Mayan groups over the territory until the region was conquered by the Spanish. During the 15th century the military strength of the Aztecs increased. They grew from a small tribe of mercenaries into a powerful and highly disciplined military force. They also formed alliances with their powerful neighbours Texcoco and Tacuba, known as the Triple Alliance. It was a time for building and the city Tenochtitlán grow and prospered.


The Ba'ali and the proliferation of Daimonion
The Aztec were ruthless warriors who in their time conquered much of Mexico. The Aztecs were attracted to the Pyramid and adopted them as their own. However, they misunderstood the Toltec teachings found at the pyramids and used them to glorify their violent ways. They transformed the Toltec teachings into teachings of horror. The Toltecs taught of the giving of the open heart to the Sun. Taking the lesson literally, at the prompting of their war God Huitzilopochtli, the Aztecs performed human sacrifice. What caused this reversal of philosophy? In short, the Ba'ali caused it. Shaitan, in his guise as the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli, twisted the beliefs and ways of the tribal peoples and some of the Ahua Can who moved among them. Of the Ahua can, three Vampires in particular embraced the ways of Huitzilopochtli with Gusto. First among these was TLAZOLTEOTL Eater of filth, devourer of sins, goddess of witches and witchcraft. Tlazolteotl was a creature linked to unclean behaviour, especially sexual depravity. This part of her nature intrigued Shaitan enough that he revealed his true nature to her long before he made any other moves into the Cultures of the Southern American continent. As Tlazolteotl returned again and again to Teotihuacan, Shaitan was only to happy to open her eyes to the powers of his Lord. For her part, Tlazolteotl flourish as a Ba'ali convert and helped shape the young Aztec race for her new lover Huitzilopochtli. Tlazolteotl learned the gift of Diamionon quickly, along with Protean and other new tricks previously unknown to the Ahua Can. By the Time her lover was ready to lead his new people to their destiny, she was a skilled practitioner of his dark arts and a High Priestess of Ba'al in her own right. Shaitan had found his new Tanit.

The second Ahua Can to be converted to the Ba'ali cause was ITZPAPALOTL the Obsidian Butterfly. Beautiful on the outside, demonic on the inside, armed with the claws of a jaguar, Itzpapalotl did not have far to fall. She was embraced deep in the rain forest from among the Itza and had none of the upbringing that her sisters had. This lack of contact with the Ahua Can of the lowest generations meant that Itzpapalotl was far more wild and feral than was typical of the Clan in the earlier ages and her nature meshed better with the Aztec tribe. Huitzilopochtli saw this monstrosity within her as was attracted to it. Before long the Ahua can turned her back on her sire fully and became a Ba'ali in all but blood. As the Aztec's began their meteoric rise to power, Huitzilopochtli and his Ahua Can mistresses guided their bloody hands. Warlords and despots were elevated to power while peace makers were destroyed by the hand of their dark gods. One of these violent leaders was the serial killer king Itzcoliuhqui. This blood thirsty tyrant came to the throne at 15 and was deposed before he was 20 for crimes so vile that even his people would not permit them. They blinded him and cast him from the top of the sacrificial pyramid. This should have been his death but Itzpapalotl had fallen in love with the murderous teenager and she decided to embrace him. Taking him from the very steps of the pyramid, she made him an Ahua Can and the pair became terrors of the night drenched forest. When he returned from the lands of the dead, ITZCOLIUHQUI The Twisted Obsidian One, began to be worshipped as the God of the Curved Obsidian Blade by his frightened ex subjects. He was also seen as a God of darkness and destruction. Blinded and cast down from the heavens, Itzcoliuhqui was known to strike out randomly at his victims and to spread pain and misery for their own sake.

So now that the Aztec had reached the height of their civilization, and while Huitzilopochtli slept, these three Ahua Can moved among the towns and did his bidding. In time Tlazolteotl, Itzpapalotl and Itzcoliuhqui were joined by other vampires, Nosferatu and Gangrel as well as more Ahua Can, and they created progeny of their own. The corrupted Ahua Can took the name of Itzcoatl or 'Obsidian Snakes' and leapt fully into the darkness of the Ba'ali blasphemy.

So why did so many Ahua Can turn from their righteous path and embrace the corruption offered by Tezcatlipoca? The answer is simple, their Bloodlines weakness was too strong within them to fight once it was offered the carnal delights of human sacrifice. Tezcatlipoca and the Aztec's had no compunction against the blood thirsty slaughter that the Ahua Can beast cried out for. The nightly struggle against the Yohuallahuantzin is hard on any of the Bloodline and the chance to be part of a cult that not only allowed the crime, but that positively relished it, was too tempting.

Shaitan-Tezcatlipoca offered them freedom from the aesthetic demands of Ixchel's laws and the freedom to do what came naturally to the Vampiric children of Rattlesnake. For Shaitan, having sent his only travelling companion into the northern lands and devoid of followers, the Ahua Can and their yearnings seemed like a blessed gift from his Lord. The seduction and ultimate corruption of the Ahua Can into the Itzcoatl was possibly the least taxing Temptation of his Unlife!

The children of Huitzilopochtli versus the children of Ixchel
While the Mayan and Toltec Empires waned, the Aztec went from strength to strength and Shaitan's forces grew stronger in their shadow. The wily Ba'ali used a variety of masks and guises to influence his pawns, but his two greatest tools were Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca. Only those closest to him knew that the War God Huitzilopochtli who led the Aztec to victory was in truth the benign face of Tezcatlipoca, the God of Darkness and sower of discord. As was always his way, the founder of the Ba'ali used layers of deceit and misdirected worship to great advantage. He had skill and organization that made his limited troops a real threat for the larger numbers of independent Ahua Can.

Single Vampires and small pockets of Ahua Can worship made easy targets for the Ba'ali, and the insular nature of the bloodline prevented news of such attacks from spreading. All this Shaitan used and as Tezcatlipoca he slowly rose to power as the dominant Vampire in the whole American continent, ruling the Aztec Empire from within and the remains of the Mayan and Toltec Empires by judicious corruption and manipulation of the Ahua Can. Unlike elsewhere in the world, Shaitan had no need to stay his hand for fear of discovery by the stronger Clans who had brought him low in times past, they simply did not have a significant presence in the Americas and especially not in the Southern continent. He found himself able to influence the Aztec as completely as he had done the civilizations of Kala-At-Shergat, but the reasons for those failures were not a barrier here. Those who did not come willingly to his nightly blood orgies were coerced and tempted into attendance or swiftly destroyed, often by their own childer or sires. Never a prolific bloodline to begin with it appeared that the Ahua Can were on the verge of being completely subsumed within the Ba'ali.

1517 The Spanish colonisation of the islands of Hispaniola and Cuba allowed them to launch exploratory forays around the Caribbean. C-rdoba discovered Isla Mujeres and sailed down the Yucatan Gulf coast to were he suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Maya.
1519 Cortez set landed in Veracruz. He conquered the Aztecs in a year, but it took another 20 years to conquer the Yucatan.
1520 By the end of Tenochtitlan's rule, 38 conquered tributary provinces had been made, who had to make payments. However, some of the tribes at the borders stayed strongly independent. This made it easy for the Spanish captain, Cortez to defeat them.
1526 Francisco Montejo set out to conquer the Yucatan.
1562 Fray Diego de Landa, second bishop of the Yucatan ordered a mass destruction of Mayan books and only three survived. The few Aztecs that remain have carried on their culture today.
July 1847 The Yucatan Maya launched a major uprising called the Caste War. The Spanish were distracted by the war between the US and Mexico and nearly lost the peninsula. The Maya attacked Spanish villages armed by English settlers from Belize and with guns distributed to defend Yucatan's secession in 1846. They regained 90% of their lands and held all of the Yucatan except Campeche and Merida. At the height of their revolutionary success, the Maya inexplicably withdrew to their villages reputedly to plant corn for the season. The war with the US ended in 1848 and reinforcements were sent to the Yucatan, where they drove the Maya back to Chan Santa Cruz.
1901. The Maya resistance is crippled by disease and weapons shortages and they are forced to surrender. The Spanish defeated the Aztecs and the Catholics felt that it was their duty to destroy every trace of the Aztecs.


The Coming of the Conquistadors
It is entirely possible that Shaitan might have destroyed every Ahua Can he could not convert if it wasn't for the arrival of the Spaniards. The greed of the Conquistadors and their Church sponsored genocide diverted the Ba'ali attention from corruption to self preservation and the Ahua Can gained the years necessary to regroup and restructure. By the time Shaitan had a firm enough grip on the invaders to renew his war, Ixchel and her children were prepared. When Tezcatlipoca and his 'Obsidian serpents' returned to the hunt, they were met with a ferocity and determination that took him by surprise and devastated his forces. Knowing that a prepared Ahua can and their devoted mortal subjects would be too costly a foe, Shaitan withdrew and began to concentrate on the invaders. The Western vampires had arrived in Mexico and he knew all to well that the time for open rule was passed. The Catholic Church was driven to wipe out all traces of indigenous spirituality and thousands of relics and texts were burnt by the pious clerics. The Natives were first slaughtered in the Spaniards endless thirst for Gold and then converted by terror and force to follow the God of the invaders. Missionaries and despots came to rule the tattered remains of the great Empires of Mesoamerica and the unstoppable tide of Western vampires poured in behind them. Tlazolteotl, Shaitan's high priestess, found she could insinuate herself within the catholic church of the invading Spaniards, posing as a nun and sometimes as a male priest. The role of a priest came readily to her because the Aztec's believed that confessing sins to Tlazolteotl led to being cleansed and she relished her new role. The Spaniards and later invaders became the latest crop of souls that the Ba'ali corrupted, dominated and then delivered into the hands of their Infernal Lord. The Infernal taint beneath Mexico city grew to epic proportions and attracted all manner of foul creature. The Sabbat flocked there, unknowingly drawn by the power of Shaitan and the misery that swarmed around him like flies. The Black Spiral dancers and their companion Bane Spirits followed the unclean stench of Corruption, as did the Nephandi and spectres. All the monsters of the earth felt the pull in varying degrees and Mexico grew to become the murder capitol of the world. Nowhere else does such squalor and misery exist in quite the same amount, Mexico is the spiritual heart of Darkness and the vilest blemish on the face of Gaia.





The Modern Nights, Mexico city and beyond
The Itzcoatl and the Ba'ali live in Mexico city along with a large portion of the Sabbat. The worst scum of the Cainite rebellion dwell within the confines of the city and prey upon the already hard pressed mortals. Behind the mindless violence of the Sabbat lay the organised forces of Tezcatlipoca, the Fallen Mages, Werewolves and darker entities that serve the father of the Ba'ali in his breeding ground. In truth, the Itzcoatl quake in fear. The promises Tezcatlipoca made to utterly destroy their Dark Mother have not come to pass and they fear her. Each night as the moon rises, they turn their faces from her and hope that tonight will not be the night Ixchel sends her vengeance to claim them.

South of Mexico, in the Banana republics, the small villages and lost cities of the Rain forest, lurk the Ahua Can. Centuries of warfare against their own depraved Childer and the rest of the Ba'ali menace have made them wary and less trusting. Many have fallen from the path of Quetzalcoatl and exist solely to survive and predate upon their herds, true vampires in every sense. But Ixchel still rules her line, and her indemonstrable will is difficult to resist should she call upon her offspring to take action. From beneath her great pyramid, the mother of the Ahua Can ensures that the darkness is kept at bay and is not allowed to swallow the sun until the designated time. One day she believes Quetzalcoatl will return and the currant Age will end as predicted in the great stone calanders of her priesthood. Until then, she and her loyal childer fight on.

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