The day Karen and Simon left Mexico, we took a tour to Tula before delivering them to the airport.
There was a community here prior to the collapse of Teotihuacan. The earliest well-defined settlements in the Tula area appeared around 400 BC. Based on designs found on Tula pottery that seem to have come from Teotihuacan, the area may well have originally been under the control of that important city.
I accepted the housesit in Mexico City because I had always wanted to visit the National Museum of Anthropology and Teotihuacan. Secure in the opportunity to do those things, I started to look for other ‘can’t miss’ things to see and do in the area. As I said in an earlier post I was rather nervous about the city, but the more I read about the Distrito Federal, the more excited I became about the sheer depth of experience that was on offer.
Father Jean de Brebeuf went out from France to New France (Quebec) in 1625 as a Jesuit missionary. He was genuinely interested in the native culture and spirituality he encountered there. He wrote extensively about the Huron culture and created a dictionary of the language, which was not at that time a written language. Father Brebeuf learned shamanistic ways and attempted to incorporate and reconcile them with the christian religion he was trying to win converts for.