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The Quinametzin appear in old Nahua stories as a race of giants said to have lived in the highlands of ancient Mexico long before the Aztec and Toltec empires. Some traditions describe them as powerful builders the kind of beings people later credited with raising massive works of stone, including places like Cholula or even the early cities of central Mexico. Colonial era sources, including manuscripts like the Codex Ríos, record stories of these giants and the battles that supposedly ended their age. But where history ends, and legend begins, is still open to debate. Were the Quinametzin simply mythic figures used to explain enormous ruins? Memories of older people whose stories grew over time? Or something else entirely that later cultures tried to understand through legend? Across the world, many traditions speak of giants who lived in a distant age. So the real question might be this: Why do so many cultures remember them? What do you think these stories were really trying to preserve?

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