III The Mexicans, the chosen people by the god Huitzilopochtli, the warrior They arrived at the Valley of Mexico, the beautiful searching for the place he predicted. There they found the sign of the eagle that devoured a snake on a cactus and they founded their city, the imperial Tenochtitlan, the jewel of the lagoon. But they weren‘t alone on the lake. for to the northeast stood another city the ancient and mysterious Teotihuacan. And there they saw the temple of the dragon god and they felt his power and his goodness and they adopted him as their patron.