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they believed that the Spanish were the emissaries of the god Quetzalcoatl, who was believed to have been turned into a bearded man. According to their mythology, the Aztecs believed that when Quetzalcoatl left on the Eastern Sea, he vowed to return and reclaim his throne in the year 2 Reed, which in our calender is 1519 AD.

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