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Coat of Arms of Mexico(Redirected from Mexican coat of arms)
According to popular legend, the Aztec people, then a nomadic tribe, were wandering in Mexico in search of a sign that their god Huitzilopochtli had commanded them to find: a Crested Caracara perched atop a cactus, devouring a snake. After two hundred years of wandering, they found the promised sign on a small island in the swampy Lake Texcoco. Here they founded their new capital, Tenochtitlan. The coat of arms of Independent Mexico which was adopted in 1821, depicts a caracara eating a snake that it is holding in its claw. The design also forms the center of the Mexican flag. See alsoThe Tale of the Eagle: a legend from Albania explaining the origin of their indigenous name, which also features an eagle with a snake. The contents of this article are licensed from Wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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