Spain and Tlaxcala // España y Tlaxcala.
Spain said: “are you ok?”
No people in Mesoamerica knew about horses, they even came to think at first that the Spaniards were men-beasts, since they saw the rider and the horse as one.
During the battles of the Spanish against the Tlaxcalans, they beheaded a mare and showed its head in Tlaxcala to deny that the Spanish were gods.
Later, after the fall of Tenochtitlán, the Tlaxcalans obtained the privilege of riding a horse, and in fact by accompanying the Spanish to northern Mexico and Central America I have to assume that some must have gone on horseback.
And well, it’s literally Spain teaching Tlaxcala to ride a horse. Although in the heat of the battle he was able to approach and wound them without fear, it was still an unknown animal that he was not used to.
Ningún pueblo de Mesoamérica conocía los caballos, incluso llegaron a pesar en un principio que los españoles eran hombres-bestias, pues veían al jinete y al caballo como uno solo.
Durante las batallas de los españoles contra los tlaxcaltecas, estos decapitaron a un yegua y mostraron su cabeza en Tlaxcala para desmentir que los españoles eran dioses.
Posteriormente, después de la caída de Tenochtitlán, los tlaxcaltecas obtuvieron el privilegio de montar a caballo, y de hecho al acompañar a los españoles al norte de México y a Centroamérica yo he de suponer que algunos debieron ir a caballo.
Y bueno, literalmente es España enseñándole a Tlaxcala a montar a caballo. Aunque en el calor de la batalla pudo acercarse y herirlos sin miedo, no dejaba de ser un animal desconocido al que no estaba acostumbrado
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