Mexican National Shield. Each country has national symbols that represent each nation, and this time I want to share one of the 3 Mexican symbols that represent us and distinguish us from other countries, and this is the Mexican National Shield. History. The National Shield is inspired by the legend of the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. This legend tells us that the god Huitzilopochtli told the Mexicas to establish their city where they found an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a snake, and finding it in the valley of Mexico, the center of Mesoamerica, in what is now Mexico, there was where they settled and founded the most powerful empire of Mesoamerica. Since 1823, the year in which this symbol was established as a shield of the Mexicans, its design has had several transformations until 1968, when the characteristics of the current national shield are established. Meaning. For the ancient Mexicas, the eagle represented the god Hui
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