This a group based at the University of Chihuahua. The name means "Five flowers" in Nahuatl, and is both the name and feast day (on the Mayan calendar) of the Aztec god of music. Their program came in two parts. The second part was a miscellany of Mexican popular music, and was pretty pedestrian. The first half was billed as pre-Colombian music, which it certainly was not. I inevitably find music from other cultures rather dull, because they obey other conventions about pacing, repeats, and climaxes that inevitably leave one feeling that one has had too much of something and not enough of something else. This piece was played on pre-Colombian instruments, and used Indian-sounding themes which I suppose might well antedate Columbus, and had accompanying dance and narrative based on Aztec legends, but it was an essentially modern piece, and a very spectacular one at that. I commend it to all of you, in the unlikely event you stumble across this group. It is sort of what Berlioz would have done had Mexico conquered Spain instead of vice versa. It was interesting to hear Huitzilpochtli described as the good guy. The Spanish padres certainly gave him a bad press. (Although I seem to recall Bernal Diaz merely describing his temple as something like "the cathedral of these people.") The story told was that his brothers, angry when they found out that his mother was pregnant with him because his birth would dilute their patrimony, resolved to kill her. When they came to do so he leaped armed from the womb and fought them. I wonder about gods. All cultures seem to have them, but their stories are diverse and their names are legion. So, were gods invented a hundred millenia ago, to follow the diaspora of modern humans, or is it really the case (pace Voltaire) that if gods do not exist, we feel (or at least felt) it necessary to invent them?