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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind by Miguel Leon-Portilla, Miguel Portilla, Miguel Lebon Portilla

Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind Miguel Leon-Portilla, Miguel Portilla, Miguel Lebon Portilla ebook
ISBN: 9780806122953
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Page: 237
Format: pdf

Aug 17, 2012 - But something to keep in mind when studying the histories of the Mesoamerican cultures, almost everything in the early historical record is written by the Spanish. May 20, 2014 - While acknowledging the widespread human suffering and cultural destruction of the colonial process, one can nevertheless assess protagonists like Hernan Cortes on the basis of their motives and deeds within the given context in which At the age of 14, Cortés was sent to study at the University of Salamanca. Jul 29, 2010 - The most recent archaelogical discoveries indicate that Chichen Itza fell almost 200 years earlier than previously thought, throwing many carefully assembled chronologies into disarray. La Malinche spoke Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs and a regional lingua franca, as well as Chontal Maya, which was also understood by Aguilar. Man in America, as elsewhere, lent an additional interest to the star-group, as I concentrated my mind upon its form and endeavored to imagine it in four equidistant positions, corresponding to the numerals in the symbol Ollin of the calendar-stone of Mexico. Apr 22, 2014 - If the physical and cultural characteristics of Nyong'o were listed on paper, she would theoretically be disqualified from many opportunities in contemporary American society. Apart from that, I studied applied linguistics (majored in Romance languages) but have never heard of a Mexican linguist refering to “náhuatl” as “mexicano”. Although Guadalupe is perpetuated as a Spanish word, researchers say that Gudalupe comes from the Aztec Nahuatl word Coatlalopeuh (pronounced "quatlasupe") meaning "the one who crushes the serpent," and is a result of translation from Nahuatl into .. There is presently some agreement that Chichen The name Kukulcan corresponds to Queztacoatl, the famous feathered serpent common to many ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, including Teotihuacan, the Toltecs, and the Aztecs. Jul 7, 2012 - There were over 250 deities in the pantheon of the Maya and, owing to the mass burning of their books by Bishop Diego de Landa in 1562, much information about the gods (and Maya culture) was irretrievably lost. Nov 8, 2012 - Thanks to ancient Egyptian texts, we now know the Sphinx represents Horemakhet (“Horus of the Horizon”) and is the divine personification of the rising disk of the Sun, fully poised on the eastern horizon. In this region at least, the ancient pride of the Mexicas (or Aztecs, as you probably know them) lives on in the back of people's minds. Let's begin from the There are also numerous mounds that were also thought they were Aztec sacrificial mounds, until experts proved they were European bodies buried by European (actually Catholic) customs. Nov 4, 2010 - Home to ancient Mayan ruins, Chiapas was already a tourist destination, but the EZLN's fight has consolidated that (not that it's necessarily the safest of places to go!) . We all know that one of the most discussed (if not the most discussed) topic in Aztec history studies is human sacrifice, but no one discussed about human sacrifice being a propaganda material used by the Spanish, that is exactly what we will discuss here. Jan 30, 2014 - A number of indigenous cultures (particularly the Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and Tupi-Guarani) produced sophisticated systems of thought long before Europeans arrived with their own understanding of “philosophy.” The scholarly debate over whether or not to include indigenous thought in the history of Latin American Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind. Jun 5, 2010 - That's how you say "May you spend a good day" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.