First of all: the music you've been listening to around here is composed and performed by Sam Leo, and therefore damnwell copyright Sam Leo, all right reserved whatever. It was performed originally with native instruments and then approximated as well as possible using the General MIDI sound palette. It's close. Conch-shell horns don't sound quite that much like French Horns, but it'll do.
Second: A lot of the Aztec/Mesoamerican material presented here, while not inaccurate, is based on my (Sam Leo's) interpretation of things. A lot of what's directly stated is at least controversial within the field. As an example, just about all Mesoamericanists believe that Xochipilli and Centeotl are the same God. Only a few think he's identical with Xipe Totec. I'm one of the few, so Xam says he is, period. The point is, if you're doing a research paper you'd best confirm things elsewhere, otherwise your prof's gonna look at you funny.

Okay, so here are some of those other sites:

  • The University of Guadalajara A very good starting point for matters Mesoamerican.
  • Mesoamerican Archaeology WWW page
  • Online Mesoamerica. Information on the codices and more.
  • Mexico's Index
  • The Maya Astronomy Page

    And here are some books you can read:

    Spence, Lewis G: The Gods of Mexico. London: Unwin, 1923.

    Nicholson, Irene: Mexican and Central American Mythology. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967.

    Peterson, Frederick: Ancient Mexico. New York: Putnam, 1979.

    Vaillant, George C.: The Aztecs of Mexico. New York: Penguin, 1950.

    Waters, Frank: Mexico Mystique. Chicago: Sage Books, 1975.

    "original" sources available in English:

    Duran, Diego: The Book of the Gods and the Rites. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

    Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de: The Florentine Codex. (Anderson and Dibble translation). Santa Fe: The School of American Research, 1951.

    Bierhorst, John: Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1974.

    Bierhorst, John: Cantares Mexicanos. Stanford, CA: The University of Stanford Press. 1985